Charles Loring Brace: The Children's Aid Society

Back in the mid- 1800’s approximately 150,000 children were placed across the United States in foster homes by Orphan Trains. The program accountable for such as task was a non-profit organization that was determined to help the displaced children due to an increase of immigrants and the Civil War. The overall goal was to redistribute work forces and find homes for displaced children. The Children’s Aid society which is a non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace was the main contributor to the Orphan Trains program in the United States (Teaching). The idea originally from the 1700’s was created by the British as a way to move less desirable citizens to North America, Australia and Capetown ( Boook Holt). Brace was a minister and according to an excerpt from a magazine for Humanities stated that his goal in life was to bring as many people as he could to the Christian style of life ( MAGAZINE). Brace along with social reformers decided to create an organization that was to help poor children in a …show more content…
For instance, children would run away from their new home for being beaten or feeling displaced(MOVIE). Some children were taken for the mere purpose to use them as slaves. According to (lady in Movie) she was told once after taken to a home that she was a replacement to be their live-in slave. She then discusses her decision to leave right away to try to find another home. According to Holt in ,The Orphan Trains : Placing Out In America, “Placing out” was easier for boys than it was girls. Farming families looked for boys who could invest their time towards the farm and in turn the boys had a loving family. The girls were more difficult, especially teenage girls to which brace considered a “class by themselves” ( Holt). A woman by the name Mrs. E. Trott stated that these girls were beyond helping after not being chosen in “placing