This charter established his campaign to set up The Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned children. Up to a thousand babies a year were abandoned in early 18th-century London.

Hospital staff christened the two Baby Catherine and Baby Joan, but the generic term for abandoned children is that fairytale word ‘foundling’. In the past there were group homes and asylums for ...

?Bethany Lampland is the COO of The New York Foundling, a nonprofit with nearly 2,000 dedicated employees who serve 27,000 children and families throughout New York and Puerto Rico each year. In ...