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A 6 page review of the history of the orphan trains, New York City’s and Boston’s solution to the problem of the street waif. This movement involved not just true orphans, not just children for whom there were no relatives left, but also children who were being inadequately cared for by their own families. These children were rounded up and shipped to new homes in the West and the Midwest where they either became indentured servants or were adopted into caring homes which would provide both care and direction to a better life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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not limited to Charles Dickens London. Indeed, the United States has historically had its share of children who for one reason or another were forced to wander the streets
in search of the basic necessities of life. The mid part of the 1800s is particularly noted for its lack of adequate societal provisions to care for children who
were being inadequately cared for otherwise. Variously described as orphans, foundlings, waifs, half-orphans, street Arabs, guttersnipes, and street urchins; these children had no modern day versions of state sponsored
social services which was charged with their care (Holloran, 2002). Instead, they were left to their own devices, or in the case of the Orphan Train Movement, were rounded
up to be shipped west to lives which it was hoped would be more advantageous. The Orphan Train Movement is most often identified
with the orphans of New York City. This identification is partially correct in that some thirty thousand children from that city alone rode the orphan trains over a seventy-five
year period (Dipasquale, 2002). It is important to note that the orphan trains had points of origins from other locations as well, but the number of children from these
other cities were minuscule when compared to those that shipped out of New York. It involved not just true orphans, not just children for whom there were no relatives left,
but also children who were being inadequately cared for by their own families. Many of the "orphans" were simply turned to the streets by adults who either would not
or could not care for them. Others had run away from homes in which they had been unhappy. Many were the victims of child abuse either through
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