This is the second article in a series about dormitory education. The first article introduced the topic.

Orphans or disadvantaged children or some disabled who cannot live at home, have no choice but to live in dormitories. These children lose out on certain benefits but there’s little that can be done about it. They do not receive the warmth, and the family guidance that would be accepted from living at home. They lose out on the advantages of their own mother and father, and they forfeit family traditions. However, in those cases there is often no choice since the child cannot live at home.

Many of these children do contribute to society and the institutions do as much as possible to replace the home.

The key here is that they do "as much as possible". It cannot be the same as a child who does live with his parents. It can’t possibly be. And traditions are not followed this way. That means that although they do as well as possible, the children grow up with a stigma of being institutionalized or with the disadvantages of being institutionalized.

On the other hand, a child who is removed from a good, warm family misses out on whatever the parents have to offer.

Thus we find that parents give birth to children, raise them till perhaps their bar or bat mitzvah, and then at the crucial time when they can still give them guidance in the direction of the family and in the family traditions and influence their behavior, manners, and family ethics, they are removed from the family – supposedly for their own benefit.

The next article in the series discusses the impact of dormitory education on the Yeshiva world.