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A Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America (1997) Herman, Ellen. "Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-32760-0; Kleinberg, S. J. Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (2006) Miller, Julie.
Orphanages in the United States by state or territory (9 C) Pages in category "Orphanages in the United States" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
The estimated number of children adopted in the year 2000 was slightly over 128,000, bringing the total U.S. population of adopted children to 2,058,915. [13] In 2008 the number of children adopted increased to nearly 136,000. [14] (These numbers include adoption by step-parents and same-sex parents whose parental rights were not automatically ...
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. C. Orphanages in California (2 P) M. Orphanages in Maryland (4 P) ... Orphanages in South Carolina (3 ...
Statistics on the total number of children in orphanages nationwide are unavailable, but caregivers say their facilities were becoming unmanageably overwhelmed almost on a daily basis. Between 1994 and 1998, the number of orphans in Zimbabwe more than doubled from 200,000 to 543,000, and in five years, the number is expected to reach 900,000.
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. A. Orphanages in Australia (5 P) B. ... Orphanages in the United States (1 C, 41 P)
Category: Orphanages in North America. 1 language. ... out of 2 total. C. Orphanages in Canada (3 P) U. Orphanages in the United States (1 C, 41 P)