The Big Brother movement was started in Cincinnati in 1903 by businessman Irv Westheimer. His idea to reach out to fatherless boys gained support in Cincinnati, then spread coast-to-coast and expanded to include young girls. There are now nearly 500 Big Brother Big Sister agencies in the United States.
It is a great program, and I had no idea it started here.
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Wow, I'm so impressed by this.
I didn't realize fatherless children was a problem to that degree in 1903. Was it the flood of immigrants from Europe? Migration from the southern states?
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