Old solutions, new circumstances, 1607-1800

The rise of Antebellum congregate institutions

"Placing out": orphan trains, foster homes, and adoption

Discovering cruelty and building more asylums in the late nineteenth century

Innovation, tradition, and progressive-era "child saving"

The issues fade, 1920-1960

Children's issues as battleground, 1960-1980

Continuing battles, tragedies, crisis: the 1980s and 1990s.