Many orphanages began as baby safe-places, and mothers who could not care for their children would leave them on the doorstep (or whatever ingenious contraption in use), with only the rags they wore, maybe a blanket, and sometimes a charm or heirloom to give the child when grown. An effort was made to keep them clean and fed, but often other concerns, such as education, fell by the wayside as their numbers increased. SIDEBAR: Interestingly, another option open to desperate mothers was to warehouse or 'farm' the babies with a woman, usually in the country, who--for a regular payment--would care for the child. It was discovered that several of those women actually killed the babies to spare themselves the expense and trouble of caring for them, but continued to accept the mothers' payment. (Assuming she was able to continue payments at all.) Some of the babies were killed on the same day they were received from the mother.
If you were unfortunate enough to end up in one of those places you soon found out what i was like to be cold poorly dressed and nearly always hungry. These places were also work houses and were recruiting places for the upper cases for cheap labour domestic and sexual . often the church was involved in these dealings. More then 65% of the children that were in these institutions lived on to become criminals. many children opted to live on the streets feeling that earning a living by begging, doing menial jobs and prostitution was a preferable option to the soul destroying life that awaits those in orphanages and workhouses. In a way we are seing the same situations develop again today among homeless children throughout the world including our comfy western world.
It was called the Victorian Age as it was the time the Queen Victoria ruled.
The Victorian Crossroads are in the Victorian Age, at the Corner of Balta St.
The Victorian Age was a time period that began in 1837 and ended in 1901.
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The Edwardian age followed the Victorian age.
In the victorian times you hadto work till the ageof 18 years old
In the Romantic Age, they were focused on expressing their freely imaginative thought. Victorian time, writers were more focused on social issues. Also, poetry was bigger in the Romantic age than the Victorian age
round about the age of 80
Usually from about 12 years of age
some victorian childrens started working for the age of four
How many orphanages are there in america?
Victorian times