Today’s news is repeating itself, it’s inevitable. The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is set in the 1930s, and this is around the time where the early stages of foster care started developing. Foster care is still around, and the system is as broken as it was when it was first introduced. In Orphan Train, part of the story revolves a young girl, Niamph, who’s parents died, and placed into foster care. She jumped around from house to house. In the first house, she was selected off of the orphan train for labor, and her foster parents didn’t take her to school, —a requirement for child services— and was barely fed. In her second home, she was raped, had to care of children, and was also barely fed. It wasn’t until her third home where
