Children who are considered vulnerable are often taken to children's homes for care and protection. It is believed that this does not work well in the long term especially when the child leaves the institution. They fail to be independent. There is a feeling that this depends on how the institution is run in relation to religious doctrines.
The ideal way it a prospective design in which you'll follow these children and a control group from the same background but not in these institutions. Then you'll be able to compare the trajectories over time between the group. A less ideal way is to use retrospective design in which you assess an outcome in the present, for example conduct behaviors and psychopathology and then ask about the history of the person and whether or not he or she was in the institutions. The latter design if much more biased.
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