In the late 1800?s, why were there so many children being adopted?

a. It allowed poor fathers and mothers unencumbered opportunity to seek work.
b. Families were being punished for being poor.
c. The middle class wanted to save children from their poor origins.
d. So poorhouses could be turned into nursing homes for the elderly who had no family.


C Correct Answer: The middle class wanted to save children from their poor origins.
Feedback for Correct Answer: Middle- and upper-class families were increasingly adopting children based on the assumption that these infants would remember nothing of their impoverished origins and could be "saved" by being raised in good homes.

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