The purpose of the article has been presented clearly and in a method that immediately captures the reader's interest in the topic. Although the author uses a constructionist approach to his findings, it would have been more effective if some form of statistical evidence had been provided to support his explanation of orphanages in North America and Europe. Claiming that there were thousands of children placed in orphanages in Britain forces the reader to assume a number of between 10,000 and perhaps 100,000 children. As a result, the connection the reader is supposed to develop with the material is not