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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
They were "throw away" kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the poor in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give homeless children a chance to find families to call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children, mostly from New York and other cities of the...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
This is a "study of 'placing out,' a program that began in the 1850s and continued until the late 1920s. More than 200,000 urban children and adults were moved under social programs that put children into rural homes whenevertheir parents were deceased or were unable to care for them." (Choice) Index.
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