Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20140214194039/@comment-4839682-20140215165108

I don't remember Emma mentioning an orphanage...

In fact, unless the LWM deviates from the real-world on this, there really aren't "orphanages" in Maine (or the US, for that matter) even in the 1980s. Emma would have been bounced between different foster homes, probably with varying numbers of children. (The home she was in with Pinocchio, for example, was a foster home)