“The orphanage provides the tangible needs, the physical needs that you can see like food and clothes. But only the family can provide the intangible needs like love, identity and connectio ...

“It was such an escape, and so different from the regular narratives that you had about mom and dad,” Turner says of the cartoon ... proprietor of an orphanage for teenage girls, the Starlight ...

But institutions like orphanages are not equipped to provide the individual love, care, and sense of belonging that only a family can offer. The parents and children experience significant loss ...

Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice, by Christine Kenneally, and We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child ...