![]() ![]() ![]() On a brief Thanksgiving trip to my native Kansas, I hoped to visit the National Orphan Train Museum and Research Center, dedicated to preserving stories and artifacts related to the movement, in Concordia. So no wonder, when I read about the U.S.’s 75-year Orphan Train social experiment, it resonated so strongly with me. My own daughter came to me at ten months on a train from Yiwu City to Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang Province. to Guatemala and Ethiopia and China to meet their new children. Later in the twentieth century and early in the twenty-first, in our contemporary versions of the Orphan Trains, planes from Vietnam and Korea brought escorted children to new families in the U.S and took new adoptive parents from the U.S. Between 18, around 200,000 homeless, abandoned, and orphaned American children were sent by train, mostly from New York City, to new homes, mostly in the Midwestern U.S. ![]()
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