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Adoption and

How it has Changed

Historical Impact

1851 Massachusetts Law

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Over 4.3 million

immigrants moved to the United

States between 1841 and 1860.

✢ Lack of extended family.

✢ Children as young as six working.

The population of New York City in 1850

reached about 500,000 due to the influx of

immigrants. Between 10,000 and 30,000 of

these residents were homeless kids.Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State. | “Need for the Orphan Trains.” Orphan Train Complex: Preserving

the Past for the Future.

Talmon, Noelle. “The History of Orphan Trains.” Ranker. | Warren, Andrea. “The Orphan Train.” Washington Post. 1998.

Poverty at the Turn of the Century


Started by the

Sisters of Charity in

1869 with $5 to their

name and a white

cradle in the foyer.

On the evening of the same day it opened, it

received its first infant, and forty-four others

followed before the end of the first month. After two

years, The Foundling had received 2,500 babies.

Orphanages: The New York Foundling

"NY Foundling Hospital Volume 67". NY Foundling Hospital - Notes left with children. New-York Historical Society.

Retrieved 26 May 2014.

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Notes left with orphans From the New York Historical Society

"NY Foundling Hospital Volume 67". NY Foundling Hospital - Notes left with children. New-York Historical Society.

Retrieved 26 May 2014.


Between 1854 and

1929, as many as

250,000 children from

the East traveled on the

Orphan Trains.

Who do you think

would be chosen

by the families?

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Network™

..having been thrown friendless upo

n the world.

An address will be made by the

agent. Come and see the children

and hear the address. “Distribution

will take place at the Opera House

Friday, Feb. 25th at 1:30 P.M.”

The term orphan train was avoided

because less than half of the

children were truly orphans. Most

had at least one living parent.


House Study: Floor Space and Well Water Home

Study

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• Roughly 1 in 25 Americans are connected to Orphan Train Riders

through family, friends, neighbors, etc.

• Children's Aid Society estimated that 90% of placements were

successful. (Deemed successful if the child didn’t run away or ask

to be moved.)

• Today, we estimate 60 - 70% of placements were successful with the

other 30 - 40% being used as free labor.

Amanda Wahlmeier, Curator of the National Orphan Train Complex

http://orphantraindepot.org/

Orphan Train Outcomes


Baby

Scoo

p

Era

Mid 1900’s to the

passing of Roe

Vs. Wade

http://orphantraindepot.org/

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Changes in adoption… Who has the power?

BABY SCOOP

ERAMid 1900’s to the

passing

of Roe v. Wade

ORPHAN

TRAINS1854 to 1929

TODAY


Changes in adoption… Reflected in LanguageBABY SCOOP

ERAMid 1900’s to the

passing

of Roe v. Wade

ORPHAN

TRAINS1854 to 1929

TODAY

Put up for

Adoption

Lost to

Adoption

Placed for

Adoption

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Accurate Adoption Language

Spencer, M. (2005). Adoption Vocabulary: a guide to correct terminology.In: C. Marshner, & W, Pierce (Eds.), Adoption

Fact book III. Waite Park,MN; Park Press Quality Printing Inc.

Nurses need to be cognizant of accurate

adoption language in the care of families.

Words not only communicate facts but they also

evoke feelings. The words used to address

adoption can be emotionally charged and may

be used inappropriately.

“ ”


Outdated Language Accurate Language

Real parent, natural parent Birth or first parent

Give away, give up, or put up Make an adoption plan

To keep the baby Choose to parent

Unwanted child Child in need of a family

Hard to place child Child with special needs

An adopted child A child who was adopted

Power of Language

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KINSHIP OPEN SEMI-OPEN

CLOSED

Agencies and attorneys

SHOULD NOT

be offering closed

adoptions.

Changes in Adoption

✢Kinship: Family

✢Open: Contact information

exchanged

✢Semi-Open: 3rd party required

✢Closed: No ongoing

communication


Relationship Continuum Activity

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Openness Grid

Box 1 = Closed

Adoption.

Box 2 = Obligation.

Box 3 = Openness in

Adoption.

Box 4 = Extended

Family.

The open adoption grid is courtesy of Lori Holden, who writes at

LavenderLuz.com and is author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open

Adoption.


Strive to be a “5”

Anti-Adoption Pro-Education Pro-Adoption

Don’t do this!

I can’t let you do this!

You know you don’t

have

to do this!

I imagine this is hard!

Is there anything I can

do for you?

I know you will make a

good decision!

You are amazing to do this!

What a blessing!

You are doing a great thing!

You are so brave!

PRESSURE TO

PARENT

ACCURATE &

NEUTRALPRESSURE TO PLACE

Psst….. You don’t get a vote!

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Questions?


Mission Statement

To partner with hospital professionals to acknowledge and serve the

unique family and to send newborns home in the most secure arms

possible. We support families to either parent or to place through

adoption, and we empower women to make informed choices,

connecting them to local community support networks.

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