Thousands of unwanted children were placed in state orphanages where they faced terrible conditions.

Despite the name, it was little more than a state orphanage.

This is not a closed institution like the state orphanages.

Parents who gave birth to children they could not afford often left themto the care of state orphanages.

Spent three years in a state orphanage until put in another foster home at nine.

The boy died on the spot of his burns and wounds; the girl lived to be turned over to a state orphanage.

Even a bad family appeared, on balance, to be a better environment for a child than a good state orphanage.

As a result, the unwanted children often end up in state orphanages.

The boy was passed around by relatives and later raised in a state orphanage.

As early as 1718, a state orphanage had been opened in Pforzheim.