Out of the shadows: the British Home Children

Out of the shadows: the British Home Children
- In fact, says Lori Oschefski, only 2% of the thousands of children “transported,” alone and without their families, were actually orphans. While some were rescued from abusive and neglectful homes, many were the children of hard-working parents, who temporarily fell on hard times – the result of marital break-up, loss of employment, illness or dire poverty.

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