Children's Aid

And again, there's an interest...

I mean, you and I met each other at or got to work together at Children's Aid.

Um, and I was grateful to be in that particular role and, and learned a lot.

That's where I learned words like theory of change-

... not weaponizing anything.

But, um, and I feel like we kind of went through that journey a little bit, and I saw and watched and observed you during the course of that.

By the way, at that time, if I understand correctly, representing everything different in terms of the leadership of Children's Aid.

No one had...

As many as twenty five percent came from intact families too poor to feed them.

The Children's Aid Society and dozens of smaller organizations collected these children.

They pulled them from streets, tenements, and poor houses.

They scrubbed them, dressed them in donated clothing, and sent them to rural towns across the Midwest.

Birth dates were estimated or invented.

Religious affiliations were reassigned.

Catholic clergy accused the Protestant-led Children's Aid Society of deliberately placing Catholic immigrant children in Protestant homes.

The Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children was founded in 1863 specifically in response to those accusations.