At this point, foundlings were associated with orphans.
The poor no longer included only the traditional groups (widows, orphans, the blind, the lame) but also comprised newer kinds as well.
The surprising fact that only 53 per cent of the orphans could be identified in the court archives has already been discussed.
The final orphanage sample included 234 orphaned children from 124 different parental couples.
Many orphans had already left the parental home before the death of the last biological parent (8 per cent at least).
In 1814 the total number of orphans was 88, in 1859 approximately 80.
On this occasion, three daughters were orphaned, so the family property was granted to a couple with two male children.
However, with the current denotation, embryos are treated as "orphans," an analogy that leads to paradoxes.
