View the Orphan Train video by Donna and Pat Surface. Orphan Train is a song written and recorded by Pat Surface. It underscores this compelling and dramatic video depicting the Orphan Train Movement. Pat wrote this song while he was researching the history of foster care in America. Pat himself was an abandoned child in the foster care system, and eventually adopted. He was chosen to be a key-note presenter and performer for PATH, a foster and adoptive family organization. This video about the Orphan Trains is used in Pats performances. The Orphan Train Movement was a welfare program that transported children from crowded cities of the United States, such as New York City and Boston, to rural towns out West. The Orphan Trains ran between 1853 and 1929, relocating an estimated 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. The children would typically arrive in a town where local community leaders had assembled interested townspeople. The children would usually be put up on a stage for viewing and inspection. Children might sing or dance to attract interest. Many siblings were separated during this process because the parents only wanted to take one child. At the time the Orphan Train Movement began, it was estimated that 30,000 vagrant children were living on the streets of New York City. This period of mass relocation of children ended by the 1920s. It was the beginning of organized foster care in America. ow.ly/wlz4U
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