In 1953, when thousands of U.S. servicemembers returned home from the United States’s failed effort to stop encroaching communism during the Korean War, they left behind tens of thousands of mixed-race children and their scorned mothers. The plight of these women and children became a well-publicized crisis in the mid 1950s, a calamity that prompted Christian child welfare organizations such as World Vision to enter the war-ravaged country.