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Article: The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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The U.S. system of child welfare and social services for homeless or delinquent youngsters has once again aroused a sense of crisis. The United States is a nation obsessed with its children, never more so than when those children come to public attention because of poverty, abuse, or crime. By examining the orphan train movement in Boston and New York, with some mention of similar work in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Rochester, Marilyn Irvin Holt makes a significant contribution to an intriguing, original, and overlooked aspect of American social welfare history.
Holt, an archivist, not a historian, takes her readers back to nineteenth-century ...