Victorian society certainly had mixed feelings about whether to support the poor.  Usually dividing them into what she considered the deserving and the undeserving poor.  Usually children fell into the former catagory as they found it hard to refute the notion that children were innocent victims of poverty. Althoguh, having 'good breeding' counted for a great deal in Victorian Britain, steps were taken in the Victorian era to alleviate some of the sufferings of Victorian street children and orphans.