[Popman]

Families that could use a couple of extra hands took a lot of those kids in. My great grandmother told me that the local pastor took in lots of siblings that he personally placed with local families so the siblings wouldn’t scattered to the winds.

Wait, you mean regular people took christian compassion on people in distress without any child services or big government oversight to ensure they were "qualified"

Amazing we survived as a nation with their help...

[cripplecreek]

“Old Bill” was brain damaged somewhere along the way but was functional enough to care for himself in his home. The great grandsons of the family that took him in financially supported him in his old age. They ran the farm that I worked on and Old Bill was there in the office every day. My bosses gave him simple tasks to keep him busy like running short errands to town.

[Cyber Liberty]

A lot of those people in S Michigan were Amish. The real kind, like from Lancaster PA.