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INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILD CARE IN URBAN SOUTH AFRICA

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ut a recurring enjoyment of the restaurant, which indicated something very consistent<br />

among the children: an extreme orientation towards the present. There was little interest<br />

in reflection or thinking deeply to process the past, and less of an interest in imagining<br />

the future. While this is fairly common for most children at this stage across cultures, this<br />

observation stood out because it seemed to be a very close reproduction of what I would<br />

later observe from the older children and teenagers.<br />

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