Foster care became the predominate form of caring for children back in the 1950's so I don't know how the liberals destroyed orphanages. On any given day there are almost 440,000 children in foster care. My own state of Missouri has 14,000 kids in its foster system. Do away with foster care and how many orphanages do you think would be needed to accommodate them all?
I don’t know. How many people have to sign up to be fostering to take care of all them? But liberals have been chipping away at anything they saw as “humiliating” such as those, workhouses, poorhouses, and of course, mental hospital institutions. It was happening in the ‘40s as they even made movies to make it seem how horrible the latter were (never mind One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).
I’m sure there were plenty of orphanages in the day. Lots of Catholic nuns ran them as well as others.
The problem is that all that happens is the problem gets shifted somewhere else. It doesn’t go away.