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The children think of the "houseparents" as surrogate parents and enjoy the attention that is given to them.

They are grouped by years and looked after by three sets of "houseparents" per year group.

"There's at least enough for the houseparents tonight.

This meant that houseparents, already overworked, at times had to take children to hospital emergency rooms even for minor problems.

Pearson House - for senior boys Each is run by houseparents who are typically academic staff and their families.

They are cared for by a team of houseparents and their assistants and the resident matron.

They are housed in four main halls and cared for by houseparents and a resident nurse.

Houseparents provide a family atmosphere and training as well as love, nurturing and redirection.

Through this program, eight children live together as an active, giving family unit in campus cottages with a married couple who serve as houseparents.

Each student is assigned to a House on admission, with an ethos based around the family and Houseparents to act as the guiding influence.

Some of the houseparents are sneaky!

When she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, the couple served as houseparents at a residential home for infants and children.

I can't give you a definitive answer regarding the telephone - all children are different - but I would strongly advise you to talk with the houseparents.

In addition, houseparents said they had not been trained to administer powerful drugs, including phenobarbitol and thorazine, to young children but were being asked to do so.

In the Fives (year 5), pupils board at 'The Bungalow', a small bungalow in the grounds run by 2 houseparents.

A lengthy 1988 memo notes that houseparents were frequently observed watching television, and that the children were often in the care of temporary workers who did not even know their names.

'John and Jane Start to Fight' Houseparents say they try to give the children the attention they need, but juggling cooking, cleaning and bathing nine toddlers can be difficult.

But Health Department documents and interviews with workers in the homes and union officials show wide-ranging problems, from a shortage of houseparents to questionable medical care, a lack of immunizations and unsanitary conditions.

Each cottage is a large, family-style home with a kitchen, family room, study area, an apartment in each cottage for the houseparents, and four bedrooms for up to eight children (two children per room).

Apart from the short-term respite this offers the families, it provides an opportunity for houseparents (staff looking after children on a residential basis) to continue the comprehensive teaching of a full range of social, domestic and academic skills.

John Beckman, a spokesman for the Child Welfare Administration, said the agency was taking steps to hire more houseparents and reduce the number of children in the homes as well as their length of stay.

James Rempel, a member of the Brooklyn Health Action Committee, a public-health advocacy group that has been studying the Health Department inspection reports issued over the last two years, said 70 percent of the inspections noted poor diapering practices, like the failure of houseparents to wash their hands after changing a baby.

Children Take Powerful Drugs "You don't know what they have that they can give to the other children or even to the houseparents," said Charles Ensley, the president of Local 370 of the Social Services Employees Union, which represents the houseparents.