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  2. Deinstitutionalisation (orphanages and children's institutions)

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    There are also many reports of orphanages being abusive [33] [38] or having very high death rates. [39] They are a particular issue for babies and children under three years old as they can stop them making the attachments that they should. [37] These attachments can be broken by staff changing jobs and children moving to other rooms as they ...

  3. Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.

  4. Orphan Train - Wikipedia

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    My Heart Remembers, a 2008 novel by Kim Vogel Sawyer, where the main character and her siblings were separated at a young age as orphans on the orphan train. "Orphan Train Series" by Jody Hedlund, a series about three orphaned sisters in the 1850s, the New York Children's Aid Society, and the resettling of orphans from New York to the Midwest [29]

  5. Charleston Orphan House - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, the Orphan House was under criticism by the Child Welfare League of America.As a result, the Charleston City Council began to question its operations. Two years later in September 1951, the Charleston Orphan House officially closed [1] and the commissioners of the Orphan House bought roughly 37 acres of a new site called Oak Grove Plantation in North Charleston.

  6. 1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The conditions in orphanages had declined after 1982, as a result of Ceauşescu's decision to seize much of the country's economic output in order to repay its foreign debt. [4] Due to the economic downturn, electricity and heat in orphanages were often intermittent and food was scarce. [1]

  7. Mitch Albom, 9 others visiting his orphanage rescued from ...

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    Free Press columnist Mitch Albom and his wife were among a group of 10, eight from Michigan, rescued Tuesday from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

  8. St. Cabrini Home - Wikipedia

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    Original grounds of Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum, circa 1890 Mother Cabrini School, built 1934 and demolished 2017. Saint Cabrini Home (formerly the Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum or the Sacred Heart Orphanage) was an American nonprofit organization in West Park, Ulster County, New York, serving youth with emotional or family difficulties.

  9. Designer Oscar de la Renta snubs adopted son out of his will

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    The adopted son of late fashion designer Oscar de la Renta has been snubbed from his father's $26M will because of a bitter fashion fallout. According to Page Six, 30-year-old Moises de la Renta ...