<P> In the United States , foster care started as a result of the efforts of Charles Loring Brace . `` In the mid 19th Century , some 30,000 homeless or neglected children lived in the New York City streets and slums . '' Brace took these children off the streets and placed them with families in most states in the country . Brace believed the children would do best with a Christian farm family . He did this to save them from `` a lifetime of suffering '' He sent these children to families by train , which gave the name The Orphan Train Movement . `` ( This ) lasted from 1853 to the early 1890s ( 1929 ? ) and transported more than 120,000 ( 250,000 ? ) children to new lives . '' When Brace died in 1890 , his sons took over his work of the Children 's Aid Society until they retired . The Children 's Aid Society created `` a foster care approach that became the basis for the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 '' called Concurrent Planning . This greatly impacted the foster care system . Children 's Aid works with the biological and foster parents to `` achieve permanency '' . `` From the mid-1800s to the eve of the Great Depression , orphan train children were placed with families who pre-selected them with an order form , specifying age , gender , hair and eye color . In other cases , trainloads of children were assembled on stages , train platforms or town halls and examined by prospective parents . `` Conjuring the image of picking the best apple from the bin . Sometimes a child would be separated from his or her brothers and sisters , or would end up in a family that only wanted them to work . Most of the time the children were chosen by a loving or childless family '' . </P>
<P> In the United States , foster care started as a result of the efforts of Charles Loring Brace . `` In the mid 19th Century , some 30,000 homeless or neglected children lived in the New York City streets and slums . '' Brace took these children off the streets and placed them with families in most states in the country . Brace believed the children would do best with a Christian farm family . He did this to save them from `` a lifetime of suffering '' He sent these children to families by train , which gave the name The Orphan Train Movement . `` ( This ) lasted from 1853 to the early 1890s ( 1929 ? ) and transported more than 120,000 ( 250,000 ? ) children to new lives . '' When Brace died in 1890 , his sons took over his work of the Children 's Aid Society until they retired . The Children 's Aid Society created `` a foster care approach that became the basis for the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 '' called Concurrent Planning . This greatly impacted the foster care system . Children 's Aid works with the biological and foster parents to `` achieve permanency '' . `` From the mid-1800s to the eve of the Great Depression , orphan train children were placed with families who pre-selected them with an order form , specifying age , gender , hair and eye color . In other cases , trainloads of children were assembled on stages , train platforms or town halls and examined by prospective parents . `` Conjuring the image of picking the best apple from the bin . Sometimes a child would be separated from his or her brothers and sisters , or would end up in a family that only wanted them to work . Most of the time the children were chosen by a loving or childless family '' . </P>
when did foster care start in the us
when did foster care start in the us
1853
1853