That was my basic point. orphanages are probably cheaper to maintain. I suspect they are also better than what they kids have to deal with right now. I'm not saying that there aren't good foster parents but there are a LOT of really bad ones as well. An orphanage, on the other hand, will have rules, regulations, investigations, and reports. What we have now is a disaster. I have often wondered if anybody has done a study of children graduating from a foster home to see what the results of being fostered really are. Then I googled: "children raised in foster homes". Here is the first one I got: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019074091730213X

There were a lot more and the results are not all that good. I actually knew of one foster mother who was the wife of the local safeway store and she wanted the money to spend on herself.