There are laws to protect and monitor to prevent abuse.
Adoptive parents must follow strict guidelines and must pass inspections, before letting them adopt.
Orphanages usually run by Nuns must also follow rules set out by the Governments
( municipal,Provincial ,National) and are inspected periodically ). An exit interviews are held when the child leaves the orphanage.
(In my case I was in an orphanage for five months (due to the fact of a downturn in economy and mother hospitalized).
Despite them trying to butter us up by goading us to say what they wanted we stuck to our truth.( we were only 10 years old)
When my father came to pick us up we had an interview or talk with all the Nuns in a meeting room, and my sister and I didn’t hold back, we told them that while some were nice there were those among them that were downright mean plus other things that needed to be changed.
So no matter who is in charge they are not absolved of wrong doing at all, in the end the truth comes out.