Attempting to look at historical events through modern eyes is an exercise in futility. One of our broadcasters - the ABC in conjunction with the BBC, did a marvellous documentary called "The Leaving of Liverpool" about the thousands of English children who were "Transported" to Australia, Canada and South Africa post WWII. Many of whom had been evacuated and then never reclaimed as their whereabouts had been lost. So they became Orphans, taken in by the likes of Dr Barnadoes who then shipped them out to religious penal colonies. It happened.