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Orphanages plated an important role in the history of caring for children. Some information is available on a few individual Austrian norphanages, but so far we have been unable to find any overall history. During the 19th century, orphanages housed children in need. This included children who were orphaned or abandoned or whose parents were temporarily unable to care for them because of illness or poverty. As men were for the most part the family breadwinners, if the father dies or was incapacitated this meant that mothers had great difficulty caring for the chikdre, especially largevfamilies. There were few options dependent children. We have been unable to find information on thev history of orphanages in Austria. We know they existed and we believe that they were mostly operated by the Church band church-based charities. In Austria this mnean the Catholic Church. There was a special need after World War I because of the number of men killed or severely injured and the difficult economic situation. American relief efforts gave specialmattention to feeding children aftervtheWar. They were probably taken over by the NAZI Party after the Anschluss (1938). This was part of the NAZI campaign against Christianity, especially the Catholic Church. We have no information at this time as to what happened after World War II. We do know that in the post-War era as with other countries, Austria has moved toward community-based and family-based child care systems. There are now quitev a number of small group homes in Austria. There are also children growing up in foster care.
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