In this episode,  I’m going to show you that Georgia Tann, though a monster, accomplished something incredible. She made undesirable children… well, desirable. When Georgia was growing up, people would not adopt children because of a huge belief in eugenics. I’ll explain what that is in a minute. But, just picture the mass immigration to the United States, the exorbitant amount of children in poverty and orphaned little ones in the streets of New York and Boston. Then, the Orphan Trains we talked about last episode. The crazy thing is that orphans were undesirable, unwanted, tainted by their poor, unfortunate parents and nobody wanted them unless it was to use them for labor.

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Raymond, Barbara Bisantz. The Baby Thief. Hachette Books.  

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