Remembering the Sky Parlor for lost children and the public’s fascination with those who went astray.

Letters from desperate mothers to the nation's first public orphanage.

Before current foster care programs were in place, Americans depended on farmers to take care of kids in exchange for hard labor.

In a passionate set of tweets J.K. Rowling recently tackled the issue of so-called "voluntourism."

Modern-day DNA research is beginning to unlock longstanding mysteries regarding orphans.

Little Orphan Annie is the latest in a sequence of pop culture foundlings, but America’s orphans of the Great Depression weren’t endearing at all.