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Why Orphans No Longer Go to Orphanages

September 9, 2026 · 1 min read

I’ve written earlier in this series about the connection between homelessness and “adverse childhood experiences,” including unstable childhoods marked by movement around multiple foster homes. In centuries past, Americans hoped that orphanages would help to alleviate the damage already incurred by children without parents—or without parents who took good care of them. What happened to Read more...

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Екатерина Волкова
In Yaroslavl, too, many years ago the last orphanage was closed, and the children were distributed among families. I wonder how this works in practice in America - are there really fewer “moves” in foster families than there used to be in orphanages? The article made me think.
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