The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest.

Korean adoption began following the Korean War in 1953 and it is estimated that 5-10% of the Korean American population are adopted or children of adopted persons. Adoption is often viewed as a ...

Bellingham, Bruce. Little Wanderers: A Socio-Historical Study of the Nineteenth Century Origins of Child Fostering and Adoption Reform, based on Early Records of the New York Children's Aid Society.

Some children worked in factories and slept in doorways or flophouses. The Orphan Train movement took Stanley Cornell and his brother out of the city during the last part of a mass relocation ...

That’s the reason why the organization embarked on a $7 million building project in 2017. Now it’s time to dedicate and open ...

Orphan Grain Train is offering some much-needed relief for families who have identified their unmet needs through the ...

By the mid-1800s children were being transported on "orphan trains" from crowded eastern slums and institutions to the West, where they were adopted by farm families in need of extra hands.

“Orphan Black: Echoes” has been canceled at AMC Networks. The series aired its one and only season at the basic cabler beginning in June in the United States. The season finale, which now ...

A seemingly angelic orphan named Esther exhibits an unforeseen devilish streak shortly after arriving at her new home. Devastated by a recent miscarriage, aspiring parents John and Kate decide to ...

Home is the Nairobi nursery of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the world's most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation center. The nursery takes in orphan elephants from all over ...

A "widow" is the last line of a paragraph that appears alone at the top of the next page, and an "orphan" is the first line of a paragraph that appears alone at the bottom of a page. Default widow ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells dot the landscape, especially in the Appalachians. Because these “orphan wells” pose hazards to people and the environment, the federal government plans to send $5 billion ...