While it seems normal to us now, there was a time where when we didn’t have things like welfare systems, adoption systems and the like. The world was grappling with what to do with abandoned children, or in the very least how to use these children for there personal gain. Join the ladies as they discuss how these early systems began, and how they went so terribly, terribly wrong.
- Newton County, Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society – “Georgia Tann: A Story of Stolen Babies”
- Wikipedia – “Georgia Tann”
- All That’s Interesting – “How Georgia Tann Stole And Sold 5,000 Babies In The Black Market”
- Find A Grave – “Georgia Tann”
- State of Tennessee Department of State Tennessee State Library and Archives – “Georgia Tann/Tennessee Children’s Home Society Investigation Scrapbooks, 1950”
- History – “‘Orphan Trains’ Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work On Farms Out West”
- Nashville Scene – “”She terrified people”: Finally, a book tells the story of Tennessee’s infamous baby seller”
- National Orphan Train Complex: Museum and Research Center
- Chicago Tribune – “The orphan train: A noble idea that went off the rails”
- The Ultimate History Project – “Baby Farmers and Angelmakers: Childcare in 19th century England”
- History – “When People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children”
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