Orphanage/U.S. social policy

This article or section should be merged with Politics of the United States.

or some more specific article. Was split off from orphanage.

In the United States during the 1990s, many political conservatives advocated placing indigent, illegitimate children in orphanages. The idea was not implemented; however, comprehensive federal welfare reform legislation in 1996 was conceived as an alternative means of striking at the perceived social ills caused by rising illegitmacy rates.