Occasionally they would learn that the officers on the case recommended them to the desperate families.

All too often, families desperate for help don't know whom to trust or where to turn.

But it is a valid way to help put desperate families back on their feet.

Ohio thus offers desperate families a "choice" between failed public schools or safe and effective religious ones.

Behind every single case, every photo, is a desperate family.

She had ten desperate families to contact, and many others who were still in emotional limbo.

Why can't New York do better by the families desperate for this service?

Inevitably, the city will find it hard to turn away desperate families.

Some families, desperate for their children's wages, ask them to leave school before graduating so they can work.

And it puts an outside limit of five years on how long any family, however desperate, can get help.