National Orphan Train Complex

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:

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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’


Part Two of Six: As U.S. spends billions on foster care, families are pulled apart and forgotten


Part Three of Six: Frequent moves don’t just harm foster kids’ emotions — they hurt their brains


Part Four of Six: Graduation rate of 35 percent? Many foster children ‘robbed of a good education’


Part Five of Six: Aging out: Thousands of foster youth graduate to the streets every year


Part Six of Six: ‘The state that neglected me as a kid is thesame state that wants to kill me’



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The Orphan train movement in the late 1800's was the beginning of modern adoption. These pictures are from the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, KS.

Orphan Train

The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1853 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children.
Two charitable institutions, the Children's Aid Society and later, the New York Foundling Hospital, endeavored to help these children. The two institutions developed a program that placed homeless, orphaned, and abandoned city children, who numbered an estimated 30,000 in New York City alone in the 1850s, in foster homes throughout the country. The children were transported to their new homes on trains that were labeled “orphan trains” or baby trains. This relocation of children ended in the 1920s with the beginning of organized foster care in America.


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The Sisters of St. Joseph, also known as the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and abbreviated C.S.J. or S.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650. This Congregation has approximately 14,000 members worldwide: about 7,000 in the United States; 2,000 in France; and are active in fifty other countries.