Orphanages BY INGI SCANDR

 Orphanage is a place where orphans are taken a residential institution.  Orphans are children whose parents are deceased or are unable to take care of them.  Orphanages provide foster care and adoption  Orphans become a ward of the state.

 places were usually given to orphans who had come from wealthy or respectable families.  Many poor children whose parents had died were forced to live on the streets or in workhouses  Dr Barnardo created the National Society of the Prevention for Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) set up in 1889 for kids who suffered from violence at home.

 During those times the girls were and boys were separated during meals.  The foods that were usually eaten were gruel and milk, porridge or pottage mostly liquid foods  Lack of vitamin the kids used to eat caused weak eyesight, scurvy-like illnesses and leg deformities.  Due to the lack of care in the orphanages almost half of the funeral in London were of kids under 10,many died of small pox.

 Food and lodging until the age of 17  Children’s parents were rarely allowed to visit.  Couldn’t leave the orphanage walls  60% of the orphans became criminals during the late 19 th century.  Orphans suffered from a higher death rate than other children did  orphans' survival seems to have been linked to their sex because the child's sex influenced the intervention of family or outside help.

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