What do you know about orphanages?

We want to help people better understand why children end up in well-run orphanages, how they get there, and what happens after they arrive.

Many view orphanages as a home for children with no living parents. Orphanages have and do care for parentless children but they also care for children with living parents, just like the foster care program in the United States.

So are the children in the homes we support orphans or not? Good question. Some have one or both parents, some have neither. Unfortunately, some parents don’t provide their children with the care they need to become healthy functioning adults.