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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion is what happens when unwanted kids are born.  Institutions raising kids will never work out to the kid's benefit.  Many of those kids will grow up to be dysfunctional adults and produce dysfunctional kids of their own.  If only there were a way to prevent unwanted kids from being born....[/quote]

The death of the parents is what lead most into orphanages back then not parents giving them up[/quote]

That’s not really true, at least in the 19th century.  It was very common for iunwed mothers or widows to give up young children with the intent or hope of coming back for them when they were in a better place.  Many did come back — either they had a neighbor that could watch a slightly older child, or they got married, or just improved their financial condition.  I think many orphanages would not adopt out the youngest children because the mothers returned so frequently.  There’s a great book, which is mostly about a total bizarre racist thing that happened in Arizona but the first part is about orphanages in NY:
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Arizona-Orphan-Abduction/dp/067400535X
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