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Northamptonshire / Re: Boarding Out Children
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 17:28 GMT (UK) »
I wonder if a more extreme form of "Boarding out children" was the case of the Home Children Scheme. It has been estimated that between the 1860s and the 1930s over 100,000 children were sent to Canada. This involved children who were orphaned, abandoned or were paupers on the assumption that they would benefit from a healthy life and moral upbringing in the countryside. Reality often proved otherwise.
Alan
Alan