Orphanages

The Great Depression affected orphanages because so many homeless people didn't have the resources to support their children. Some children in the orphanage were, in fact, orphans, but some where their because of tough family financial times. The highest number of children "enrolled" in orphanages reached a record high of 140,000 children.

Mother Teresa started dozens of orphanage, her first in 1953, I'm sorry I can't find a name for it, the year after, she founded here the Kalighat Home for the Dying, which she named Nirmal Hriday (meaning "Pure Heart").

There is no exact number of how many children lost their parents during World War 2, but it is estimated that some one million children ended up orphans. People were killed not only in the battles but also in the bombing of cities.

Mother Teresa did not go to a school . she was given home schooling.

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Yes, Coco Chanel was put in an orphanage when she was 12, but she stated that she was 6 when her mother died and was put into the orphanage.

She also stated that she was 10 years younger than she actually was.

there area baout 450,000 orphasn, and in the world the re are abt: 210 million ophans .(recent AFCARS Report)

No, they did not. The status of a child was very low, approximately the same as a slave. A child's entire health, education, and welfare were dependent upon his or her family or caregivers. It was not uncommon for babies, especially girls and any whose families were unable to care for them, to be "put out with the trash." These unwanted children were thrown out into the open field for the dogs, birds, or other animals to eat. Older children who became orphaned would struggle on the streets for survival, stealing, scrounging through garbage, and competing with rats and such for food. Often these children would not make it to adulthood, dying from starvation, fighting, or exposure. Even if they did make it to adulthood, they were uneducated, unskilled nobodies who still lived on the underbelly of society.

This practice was not new or unique to the Romans. It had been around for centuries, notable by the fact that the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel used it as a metaphor in the sixth century BCE for the condition of Israel: "And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pities you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born."

Lucky children were taken in and raised by relatives or others who saw something of value in the children. This was usually a character and a build conducive to hard work, and most were raised to be servants or slaves. The very lucky ones might be raised by a relative who mentors the child as his own and, in time, might even be adopted by the benefactor. In general, this only happened in noble or royal families, e.g., some Roman emperors were adopted as children into the royal line and raised to be nobility.

Keep in mind that not everyone treated children as throwaways, and even though the ancient Romans did not sponsor orphanages, there were peoples and cultures within the Roman Empire that cared for their widows and orphans. These people saw the value of human life and worked to uphold it. The Jewish people provided a minimum of care to the widowed and fatherless of their own people. Some could even be quite generous with their aid, allowing their fellow Jews to keep their humanity and some dignity. Followers of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire began taking in orphans and caring for them in single or group settings, the beginnings of orphanages as we know them.

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There are no orphanages in Australia. Australia utilises foster homes for children who cannot be cared for by their own family members, and there is a very low number of babies given up for adoption, meaning that these children are adopted out immediately.

There are, however, a number of historical orphanages.

One is Monte Pio Girl's Home, located in Campbell's Hill in New South Wales. See the related link below for more information.

Similarly, St Vincent Home for Children (Brisbane) is an historic orphanage which still cares for children in a variety of way, but is no longer run as an orphanage. See the link below.

It depends on the program you are interested in, the common age requirement is 18 or 21. But there are high school programs, as well as gap year programs out there. Check out the website: www.volunteerabroad.com they have several programs for younger volunteers. Also, look around your community, ask your school, or visit local churches. They will often have some great volunteer abroad opportunities.

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the first orphanage was bilt in the victorian times because so many children were out on the streets scraping poo

u need orphans first.

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In the US, orphanage is an obsolete term, and instead children in the care of the state are cared for in either foster homes or group homes; in both cases, you are in foster care.

In general, the preference of the system is to put children in care into foster homes instead of group homes whenever possible. If you really wish to reside in a group home instead of a foster home, you should talk to your case worker, therapist and/or Guardian at Litem (or Attourney At Litem)

Sorry, but there is no way to give a simple answer. That would depend on the size of the facility and WHERE you want to build it. 25 children or 500? Alabama, New York, France, China or India? Anywhere from $100,000 to $25 million.

The court does not allow a 14yo to live on their own. 16 is the earliest you can try to get emancipated by the court and then you have to be able to support yourself.

Mohammad coveted the wife of his adopted son. In order to be able to order their divorce and subsequently marry her himself, it was revealed by Allah that adoption was haram (not permitted). Post revelation, the adopted son was no longer his son, the son divorced his wife and Mohammad married her.

Yes.

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.

As I said before I was wrongly blocked: Troll go away! Answers.com does not welcome internet trolls. I don't believe for a second you truly believe you can EAT BABIES and there are no laws that allow it just because they don't have parents. So no it's not safe - you will be spending life in prison sentenced for murder and cannibalism.

There's one, made in 1967 or 1968 or thereabouts, called My Mother's Home or My Mother's House, I saw it as a kid and again last year, where there are six or seven children and their mother dies and they keep it quiet from everyone so that they don't get sent to an orphanage, and they cash her cheques every week, but then the father turns up and he's a trouble-maker but then the kids kill him and they leave the house together and it just ends at that.