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gREAT expectations

gREAT expectations. Orphanages. BY INGI SCANDR. Brief background. Orphanage is a place where orphans are taken a residential institution. Orphans are children whose parents are deceased or are unable to take care of them. Orphanages provide foster care and adoption

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gREAT expectations

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  1. gREAT expectations Orphanages BY INGI SCANDR

  2. Brief background • Orphanage is a place where orphans are taken a residential institution. • Orphans are children whose parents are deceased or are unable to take care of them. • Orphanages provide foster care and adoption • Orphans become a ward of the state.

  3. Orphanages in the 19th century • places were usually given to orphans who had come from wealthy or respectable families. • Many poor children whose parents had died were forced to live on the streets or in workhouses • Dr Barnardo created the National Society of the Prevention for Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) set up in 1889 for kids who suffered from violence at home.

  4. Continue…… • During those times the girls were and boys were separated during meals. • The foods that were usually eaten were gruel and milk, porridge or pottage mostly liquid foods • Lack of vitamin the kids used to eat caused weak eyesight, scurvy-like illnesses and leg deformities. • Due to the lack of care in the orphanages almost half of the funeral in London were of kids under 10 ,many died of small pox.

  5. Continue…… • Food and lodging until the age of 17 • Children’s parents were rarely allowed to visit. • Couldn’t leave the orphanage walls • 60% of the orphans became criminals during the late 19th century. • Orphans suffered from a higher death rate than other children did • orphans' survival seems to have been linked to their sex because the child's sex influenced the intervention of family or outside help.

  6. Bibliography • Jocelyn, Marthe. A Home for Foundlings. Toronto, Ont.: Tundra, 2005. Print. • Greig, Jodi. "Orphans in 19th Century Victorian England." Web. 16 Apr. 2010. • Crime. "19th Century Orphanages." SlideBoom - Upload and Share Rich Powerpoint Presentations Online. Web. 16 Apr. 2010. <http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/114079/19th-century-orphanages>. • Mid-century, By. "HISTORY." MISSION STATEMENT. Web. 18 Apr. 2010. <http://www.poorhousestory.com/history.htm>.

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