i spent a day observing what happened to the group. i also studied close-ups of children on video. what became clearer and clearer as the day went on was that all these children had a serious history of suffering behind them. this, however, was never referred to...in my conversations with the therapists and mothers, i inquired about the life stories of individual children. the facts confirmed my hunch. no one, however, was willing to take these facts seriously.