Children's Aid Society

Children were orphaned everyday, and many of the older orphaned children were forced to take care of the younger orphaned. In order for the children to survive, they needed to make themselves useful. Small children would crawl through narrow openings and smuggle food into the ghettos for their friends and families. They did this with great risk, because if they were caught they would be punished severely. Jerry Koenig continues, “The only way you could survive was by supplementing your diet with the things bought through the black market. But you can imagine that if the sellers were risking their lives to obtain these things, then the price is going to be extremely high” (Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust).

An outburst in growth of America’s big city population, places of 100,000 people or more jumped from about 6 million to 14 million between 1880 and 1900, cities had become a world of newcomers (551). America evolved into a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial worker and, the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century, continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country's transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared and as capitalists dominated the economy, dramatic social, political, and economic

Agnes Home was formed in 1912, two years before the Home itself opened by the Sisters of Mercy.  They were a small group of dedicated women who were inspired by the Sisters and worked very closely with them through the years.  They said “if the Sisters would mother the babies, the Guild would mother the Home.”  The 4-story West Hartford Home opened with 50 homeless and motherless babies, eventually accommodating 200 children.  The long history of the Home together with the Guild is a rich one filled with many poignant and faith filled stories, which should be told as it stands alone as a model of a cause that has endured for almost 100 years, yet it still fills and urgent need

Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today, working parents have many options, but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally, foster care offers children more personalized attention than would normally be available at a public or private situation. However, orphanage care is notoriously uneven. While some children are indeed in loving homes, others find themselves neglected or

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

The foster care system in America negatively affects the lives of adolescents in the system mentally and physically. On any given day there are over 428,000 children in foster care and more than 20,000 kids age out of foster care with no permanent family; therefore, they are being left behind socially, educationally, mentally, and under developed for the real world. Foster care first started in the nineteen hundreds when Charles Loring Brace created the “Children’s Aid Society” in New York. Then later on the 1900’s, social agencies started to supervise and pay the foster children’s sponsors. However, back in foster care’s history and still today, the kids in the system experince abuse and become mentally unstable. One out of five kids

One of my all time favorite musicals as I was growing up was always Annie, about a sweet little orphan who through determination and a little positivity found a better life. But sadly as hard knock as Annie’s life was, it is nothing compared to the actually reality. The early foster system was established in the 1500s in order to care for children who were removed from their parents. Foster care was intended to be a short-term solution until the child is either adopted or reunited with their family. However, because of how few people there are willing to take in these kids, the average child will spend over two years waiting to be adopted. But the flaws in this system run much deeper.

Between 1854 and 1929 the United States was engaged in an ambitious, and ultimately controversial, social experiment to rescue poor and homeless children, the Orphan Train Movement. The Orphan Trains operated prior to the federal government’s involvement in child protection and child welfare. While they operated, Orphan Trains moved approximately 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted. Many of these

The Orphan Train movement provided many children with homes during a very difficult time. Many of these children were loved and treated very well, but many were not. Many children were separated from parents and siblings for the remainder of their

Starting in the 1850s, there were great increases in urbanization. Movements such as The Great Migration lead to huge populations in newly industrialized cities. In addition, there was a great increase in immigration, especially from families of eastern and southern European descent. The Orphan Train Movement’s purpose was to give the thousands of children in New York City that were left without homes due to increased urbanization and industrialization a new family out west with good living conditions and values and to increase the number of farm workers. The children mostly were placed with good families, but some children were treated as slaved by their families. Additionally, most of the children were excited to work; however, some were

The United States in the 1900's was a very tough place for an orphan. Children were left homeless and had no hope to survive. They had to dream in boxes on the street in Hell's live. They dreamt of a warm bed and a nice meal waiting on the table. They dreamed of having money that would give them power to enjoy everything else in life. The children at least wanted to get out of Hell's live to live on Mott Street. Hell's live is beneath the poor and Mott Street is the next best thing. Most children all had intuitive to start a little job from boot blacking to selling newspapers. Some were also thieves. They all had to find some way to fulfill their stomachs. There were children who had dreams of something more. Some wanted to

Agustin Jasso English C102 Professor Rogoff Satire Paper It has come to my attention that there is a problem in not only the United States but also in the international community. With wars throughout the globe such as those in Iran, and Africa, there have been hundreds and thousands of misplaced children. These children have become an extra burden on these already poor communities as there is nowhere to hold them. Orphanages of children have been destroyed through air attacks and village raids.

One of my all time favorite musicals as I was growing up was alway Annie, about a sweet little orphan who through determination and a little positivity found a better life. But has happened to orphans nowadays, you don’t exactly drive by your neighborhood orphanage on your way to work. It seems that these children have disappeared, virtually falling off the face of the earth. Today they are called foster kids with families like my own housing them. The early foster system was established in the 1500s in order to care for children who were removed from their parents. Foster care was intended to be a short-term solution until the child is either adopted or reunited with their family. However, the average child will spend over two years waiting to be adopted. But the flaws in this system run much deeper, from mental disorders all the way to human trafficking. Human trafficking through the foster system is a dire problem that can not be neglected. We will examine this today by looking at three points; recognizing what the problem, understanding the pressure that they are under, and finally how you and i can help provide the promise of a new life

Hussein Nishah once said, “Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given”. In the novel, Orphan Train by Kristina Baker Kline, the adults who adopted from the orphan train or helped the kids that were on it, had an honest desire to help the children while some of the adults adopted for personal gain and slave labour. This story follows a seventeen year old girl, Molly, who is the foster care system and needs to get volunteer hours at an elderly woman's house by cleaning our her attic. It also follows the elderly woman Molly was helping who was ninety-one, Vivian, who rode on the orphan train when she was younger. Firstly, Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen adopted Vivian to

On February 3, 1836, George went to the new 7-12 year old girl's orphan house at number 6 Wilson Street to await the first arrival. George went home discouraged that night, because no one came. His wife reminded him that they had prayed for all the supplies, but they hadn't prayed for children. The Mullers went to prayer. The next morning the first orphans came! In November, George opened a house for the younger children. Christmas dinner that year was celebrated with his family, sixty orphans, the staff, and Henry Craik, the joint pastor of the