Orbus

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Orbus, vel orphanus (Graece ορφανός^[1]), est impubes qui a genitoribus reicitur vel cuius genitores mortui sunt. Orphani multi in orphanotrophia mittuntur, sed pueri saepe paupertati, laboris impuberum vel obligatis, mercatui hominum, vel suicidio compelluntur. Causa orbitatis saepe paupertas vel morbus mentis esse potest.

• Adoptio
• Expositio
• Orbi viarii
• Orphanotrophium

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• Keating, Janie. 2009. A Child for Keeps: The History of Adoption in England, 1918–45.
• Miller, Timothy S. 2009. The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.
• Safley, Thomas Max. 2006. Children of the Laboring Poor: Expectation and Experience among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg.
• Schulz, H., H. Radebold, et J. Reulecke. 2013. Söhne ohne Väter. Erfahrungen der Kriegsgeneration. Christoph Links Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86284-228-5/
• Sen, Satadru. 2007. "The orphaned colony: Orphanage, child and authority in British India." Indian Economic and Social History Review 44, no. 4 (Oct-Dec): 463–88.
• Terpstra, Nicholas. 2005. Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna.

• Berebitsky, Julie. 2000. Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950.
• Carp, E. Wayne, ed. 2003. Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives.
• Hacsi, Timothy A. 1997. A Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America.
• Herman, Ellen. 2008. Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States. ISBN 978-0-226-32760-0.
• Kleinberg, S. J. 2006. Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939.
• Miller, Julie. 2007. Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City.

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