Reason: Because some of the children are really bad off unless you take them in. Like Lucia, for example, if you adopt two other kids, she's stuck on the streets begging for coins, with the wino bum Brenuin as her only friend. You almost feel obligated to take her in.
The player should be allowed to pull a Bryan Wilks with them, find them a home, if you don't want to take them in yourself.