Difference Between Foster Care And Orphanages

Which system provides better care for orphaned children; foster care or orphanages? This paper will examine the differences between foster care and orphanages and their pros and the cons. This paper will examine the foster care and today”s systems. Foster Care is a system in which children are placed because their biological parents cannot take them. An orphanage is a home for children which their parents cannot take of them or they are dead. The first orphanage was established was in the United States of America in Natchez, Mississippi in 1729. The orphanages were founded by private charitable groups. Orphanages boomed between 1830 and 1850. They cared the white orphanage because they were a conflict between white and Indians. They are other different reasons why the orphanages had been created to stop epidemics. The institutions taught children how to become an adult. In the years between 1847 and the 1869 Orphan Asylum In St. Louis contained about 27 percent children. The 69 percent of children were contained because the child's parents were discarded or absent. …show more content…
Not Until 1636 less than thirty years Jamestown colony was built, a boy by the name of Benjamin Eaton was the first foster child. In the year 1853 a man founded the Children's Aid Society in New York City. The man name was Charles Loring Brace. The main reason that he found this society because he saw a lot of immigrants children sleeping on the streets in New York City. He sent 150,000 children were sent by trains across the country in Midwest. Most of the children received loved and a good care. Unfortunately many of the children were treated like slaves and work for