“Have you ever heard the aphorism ‘It takes a village to raise a child’?…the aphorism is actually very wise. ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ means that the responsibility for taking care of youngsters belongs to everyone in the community…A number of villages just outside the city have signed up for a new guardian program based on…[this] aphorism…Orphans are sent to these villages, and everyone who lives there raises them together.”
— Mr. Poe, introducing a new city government program to the Baudelaires. Participant villages included Paltryville, Tedia, Ophelia and the Village of Fowl Devotees (or V.F.D).
