A review by thisfoxreads
Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America by Catherine Reef

4.0

An interesting look at how children have been helped through history--from local community to federal help. Along with orphans and half-orphans (one parent surviving but unable to care for them), others were sent by parents for other reasons. Several of my aunts were placed in an orphanage when their parents' marriage disintegrated--their mother performed in a traveling dance group while their father only wanted to take his son.

The photos are...wow. My heart aches.

Glad I read it.