Hungary’s Forgotten Foundlings: State Care for “Abandoned” Children at the Turn of the 20th Century
Hungary’s Forgotten Foundlings: State Care for “Abandoned” Children at the Turn of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the emerging institutional protection for Hungary’s “abandoned” children around the turn of the 20th century. It engages with the shift from private philanthropic to state interventions on behalf of the so called “illegitimate” children, meaning children who were born out of wedlock and/or had been abandoned. It scrutinizes the formulation of legislation targeting the protection of this particularly vulnerable group of children and the establishment of a specialized institutional infrastructure comprising child asylums and a foster system to provide care for these children.

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