RICHARD B. MCKENZIE grew up at the Barium Springs Home for Children in Piedmont, North Carolina. His experience there led him to write The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage (1996) and to edit Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (1998). He has also produced Homecoming: The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages, which has aired on PBS stations across the country. He is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine.

• Preface 1: Orphanages in History and the Modern Child Welfare Setting: An Overview (Duncan Lindsey) 2: The Early History of Orphanages: From Constantinople to Venice (Timothy Miller) 3. Christian Charity and the Politics of Orphan Care in the Dutch Republic (Anne E. C. McCants) 4. Mooseheart: "The Child City" (David T. Beito) 5. A Home of Another Kind: An Orphanage in the Midst of Chicago's Elite (Kenneth Cmiel) 6. Fates of Orphans: Poor Children in Antebellum Charleston (John E. Murray) 7. The Transformation of Catholic Orphanages: Cleveland, 1851--1996 (Marian Morton) 8. Baltimore's Nineteenth-Century Orphanages (Nurith Zmora) 9. The Orphan Trains as an Alternative to Orphanages (Marilyn Holt) 10. Orphanages as a National Institution: History and Its Lessons (Timothy A. Hacsi) Contributors Notes Bibliography Index

Professor Richard B. McKenzie is an unusual man; brilliant by nature and enlightened by experience. His willingness to seek the truth and social justice for the weakest members of society, children without functional parents, is as courageous as it is important. How a society cares for its weakest members tells how just and sensitive we are as a people. In this absorbing and historically important book, Dr. McKenzie has collected a history and analysis of how societies throughout time have dealt with their most vulnerable members. This is a must read for anyone involved with child welfare or early childhood education. -- The Honorable Gary C. Byrne, PhD, President, Vesta Umbrella, LLC Eye-opening and insightful, this book does an effective job of destroying the myths of orphanages as Dickensian images of jail-like institutions. It shows them as effective, supportive, and caring with good living conditions to raise mentally and physically healthy children. -- Donald H. Whitney, Founder, President, and CEO, World Children's Center Home Away from Home is an invaluable contribution to the discussion of the value and the motivations behind orphanages and residential schools for at-risk children. -- Heidi Goldsmith, Founder and Executive Director, CORE: Coalition for Residential Education

RICHARD B. MCKENZIE grew up at the Barium Springs Home for Children in Piedmont, North Carolina. His experience there led him to write The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage (1996) and to edit Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (1998). He has also produced Homecoming: The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages, which has aired on PBS stations across the country. He is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine.

• Preface 1: Orphanages in History and the Modern Child Welfare Setting: An Overview (Duncan Lindsey) 2: The Early History of Orphanages: From Constantinople to Venice (Timothy Miller) 3. Christian Charity and the Politics of Orphan Care in the Dutch Republic (Anne E. C. McCants) 4. Mooseheart: "The Child City" (David T. Beito) 5. A Home of Another Kind: An Orphanage in the Midst of Chicago's Elite (Kenneth Cmiel) 6. Fates of Orphans: Poor Children in Antebellum Charleston (John E. Murray) 7. The Transformation of Catholic Orphanages: Cleveland, 1851--1996 (Marian Morton) 8. Baltimore's Nineteenth-Century Orphanages (Nurith Zmora) 9. The Orphan Trains as an Alternative to Orphanages (Marilyn Holt) 10. Orphanages as a National Institution: History and Its Lessons (Timothy A. Hacsi) Contributors Notes Bibliography Index

Professor Richard B. McKenzie is an unusual man; brilliant by nature and enlightened by experience. His willingness to seek the truth and social justice for the weakest members of society, children without functional parents, is as courageous as it is important. How a society cares for its weakest members tells how just and sensitive we are as a people. In this absorbing and historically important book, Dr. McKenzie has collected a history and analysis of how societies throughout time have dealt with their most vulnerable members. This is a must read for anyone involved with child welfare or early childhood education. -- The Honorable Gary C. Byrne, PhD, President, Vesta Umbrella, LLC Eye-opening and insightful, this book does an effective job of destroying the myths of orphanages as Dickensian images of jail-like institutions. It shows them as effective, supportive, and caring with good living conditions to raise mentally and physically healthy children. -- Donald H. Whitney, Founder, President, and CEO, World Children's Center Home Away from Home is an invaluable contribution to the discussion of the value and the motivations behind orphanages and residential schools for at-risk children. -- Heidi Goldsmith, Founder and Executive Director, CORE: Coalition for Residential Education

RICHARD B. MCKENZIE grew up at the Barium Springs Home for Children in Piedmont, North Carolina. His experience there led him to write The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage (1996) and to edit Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (1998). He has also produced Homecoming: The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages, which has aired on PBS stations across the country. He is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine.

• Preface 1: Orphanages in History and the Modern Child Welfare Setting: An Overview (Duncan Lindsey) 2: The Early History of Orphanages: From Constantinople to Venice (Timothy Miller) 3. Christian Charity and the Politics of Orphan Care in the Dutch Republic (Anne E. C. McCants) 4. Mooseheart: "The Child City" (David T. Beito) 5. A Home of Another Kind: An Orphanage in the Midst of Chicago's Elite (Kenneth Cmiel) 6. Fates of Orphans: Poor Children in Antebellum Charleston (John E. Murray) 7. The Transformation of Catholic Orphanages: Cleveland, 1851--1996 (Marian Morton) 8. Baltimore's Nineteenth-Century Orphanages (Nurith Zmora) 9. The Orphan Trains as an Alternative to Orphanages (Marilyn Holt) 10. Orphanages as a National Institution: History and Its Lessons (Timothy A. Hacsi) Contributors Notes Bibliography Index

Professor Richard B. McKenzie is an unusual man; brilliant by nature and enlightened by experience. His willingness to seek the truth and social justice for the weakest members of society, children without functional parents, is as courageous as it is important. How a society cares for its weakest members tells how just and sensitive we are as a people. In this absorbing and historically important book, Dr. McKenzie has collected a history and analysis of how societies throughout time have dealt with their most vulnerable members. This is a must read for anyone involved with child welfare or early childhood education. -- The Honorable Gary C. Byrne, PhD, President, Vesta Umbrella, LLC Eye-opening and insightful, this book does an effective job of destroying the myths of orphanages as Dickensian images of jail-like institutions. It shows them as effective, supportive, and caring with good living conditions to raise mentally and physically healthy children. -- Donald H. Whitney, Founder, President, and CEO, World Children's Center Home Away from Home is an invaluable contribution to the discussion of the value and the motivations behind orphanages and residential schools for at-risk children. -- Heidi Goldsmith, Founder and Executive Director, CORE: Coalition for Residential Education