The Orphan Train Movement: ‘Beginning of foster care in America’

The Orphan Train was a precursor to the modern foster care system. Descendants of orphan train riders meet at the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kan. in 2019. Story: www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
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"Throwaway Kids" is a special Kansas City Star investigation published in December 2019:
A longtime advocate in Kansas City once told a reporter that foster care was “just a breeding ground for prison.”
That comment stuck with us and eventually led to this project. The yearlong investigation began with prisons and branched out into a more comprehensive look at long-term outcomes for children who age out of the nation’s broken, overwhelmed foster care system.
Links to all the stories in the Throwaway Kids series:
Part One of Six: ‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
Part Two of Six: As U.S. spends billions on foster care, families are pulled apart and forgotten
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
Part Three of Six: Frequent moves don’t just harm foster kids’ emotions - they hurt their brains
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
Part Four of Six: Graduation rate of 35 percent? Many foster children ‘robbed of a good education’
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
Part Five of Six: Aging out: Thousands of foster youth graduate to the streets every year
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
Part Six of Six: ‘The state that neglected me as a kid is thesame state that wants to kill me’
www.kansascity.com/news/speci...
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What happened to the hundreds of thousands of parents in 'the east' to leave that unusually large amount of orphans? That is NEVER discussed. None of them know their real history, by design.

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These children were stolen from TheirTartarian parents who were locked up in asylums for speaking about Tartaria. Learn your history.