Peter Higginbotham

This was an interesting history of children's homes in the U.K. The poverty the children lived with was quite shocking. I don't know how anyone survived. The book details the different types of children's homes, who founded the organization that ran the home and what motivated them. Of course, the number one motivator was religion. They generally clothed, fed, cleaned, and roughly educated the children but quoted shockingly shipped them off to Canada and Australia as fast as they could. These were children! However, there were so many children needing help they had to free up beds, and Canada and Australia were the dumping grounds. Sad. Very sad.… (mere)