Mother Moore's Happy Orphanage

Mother Moore's Happy Orphanage
Mother Moore's Happy Orphanage is a subsidiary of Moore's Social Services Inc. Headquartered at Moore's Asteroid in the Kuiper Belt (Sol System).

MMHO, like all the other Moore business branches provide a Social Service to the United Stars of the Galaxies and is paid for these services as a Government Contractor. Social Services are the smallest and perhaps even most neglected area of public services. The reason is the Citizen status. Union Citizens avail to a wide range of social services for free :Union Citizens receive a base salary of 500 Credits a month if they so desire and do not want to work. They receive free housing if they want and there is free health care. Employees of private or public employers enjoy great retirement benefits and “Orphans” of Union Citizens are taken care of by searching for a legal guardian in the Orphan's family. Union Citizens have these and a myriad of other benefits and services, all of which are not available to Non Citizens. While over 98.2% of all Union Population are Citizens there are 1.8% Non Citizen-Residents. These are legal long term guests, diplomats, Convicts and Felons, Test Refusers , Test Failers , Gal Drifts and Illegals. 1.8 Percent is a very small number, but with a Society reaching a population of about 1.14 Quadrillion Beings (1,140,000,000,000,000) there are approximately 633 Billion Non Citizen. Of these 633 Billion there are about : 350 Billion Test Refusers, 120 Billion Illegals, 100 Billion Convicts and Felons,30 Billion Guests, 21 Billion Test Failers and about 12 Billion GalDrifts.

Orphans (abandoned  children, children who lost their parents) of GalDrifts, Illegals and Test Refusers are the Children of Non-Cits and do not receive the same care and attention, there are approximately 120 Million Orphans Union Wide. Adoption programs take care of about 5 Million, the rest is placed in Orphanages. There are four[1] such Orphanage Provider Companies of which Mother Moore's is the oldest.

Founded by Miriam W. Moore, the widow of a United Earth Fleet Admiral (Herbert Taylor Moore) founded MMHO in 2229 and opened the first Orphanage on Mars. When the Union grew and specific laws regarding the Orphans of Union Citizens were enacted and the Assembly wanted to give all Children (those of Non-Cit) the chance to become Union Citizens and visit Union Schools, the “Orphanage Business” took off. At first it was tightly regulated and inspected,  and the places were as good as an institution could be, (short of adoption to loving parents.) The issue of Non Cits had always been a thorn in the Side of Citizens and the Issue of Non Cits Orphans slid away from the public eye. (Someone did something about it and that was good enough) While the Regulations are still in place, the controls ebbed off and by the Year 3500, the Non Cit Orphanage Business was more or less on its own. Clerks simply checked the numbers and paid the fees. The more difficult a child was (Needing Psycho support etc) the more money the Orphanages charged the Government.

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 * Charles Rivel Bread and Games Inc.
 * Granny Smith Wonderful Care Inc.
 * Aunt Annie's Lovley Childhood Inc.
 * Silver Care Inc, a company directly sponsored by Eric Olafson and overseen by David Silverzweig is the fastest growing competitor

after 5050

 The abhorrend inhuman conditions, the slave markets run by Granny Smith and the Psycho Surgery  experiments and Drug testing done by Charles RRivelInc along with the worst of them all (MMHO) came to light after Exa Olafson exposed them and asked her brother to help her tackle the problem a different way (By founding Silver Care)