Alone in the World; Orphans and Orphanages in America by Catherine Reef

It is hard to image how different children without parents or who could not keep them were treated in the past compared today. Was it a better way or was it worst than today? With all the stories in the news, would it be better to bring back orphanages as safe places to grow up? Why do senior citizens who grew up in them talk so loving about them? Are they just remembering the good and not the bad? Do the fiction books you read tell the real story? Find out in this book. EML started life out in an orphanage so I had to read this book when I got it. Maybe I should have been left there? What do you think?