KCSL Adoption Booklet

A Radical Belief
n 1898, KCHS published the first
Home Finder Monthly Journal in an
effort to find safe homes for children.
At this time, it was a radical belief that
children grew best in family homes
and not in orphanages. Below is the
original message that was sent with the
Journal to explain its’ purpose:
The Home Finder will reach many
homes this month for the first time. We
offer no apology for sending the little
paper to those who have not asked
for it. We simply take this method of
making some of the good people of the
state acquainted with one of the most
efficient, economical and Christ like
charities of the country. We hope after
you read this paper you will be enough
interested in the cause which it advocates
to send us your name and 25
cents and have the Home Finder visit
your home once a month for a year.
The field which our little paper occupies
has never been entered before. The
facts which it publishes and position taken
will be an astonishment to many, and
yet we will put nothing in print which we
can not fully substantiate. The childless
home of the homeless child is such a
new thought and so radically different
from anything that has ever before been
attempted that many will say, “you can
never solve the homeless child problem
in this way.” It is just such people
that we are anxious to have read the
Home Finder. We know to a certainty
that there are more excellent Christian
families in Kansas wanting a child than
there are homeless children with which
the supply and demand. We want you
to be apprized of this fact, and to help
us put this supply and demand together.
For 12 decades, KCSL has been finding safe and
loving homes for children. These are their adoption
stories as told by moms, dads and children.
The1890s
Look for popular
children’s toys from every
decade throughout this book.
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