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Baby farmer
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Ba´by farm`er
1.One who keeps a baby farm.
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Noun1.Baby farmer - someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a feebaby farmer - someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee
keeper - someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?"
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Says O'Grady, 53: "I've got a weird friend who sends me letters looking really official saying 'Dear Mr O'Grady, we have reason to believe you are running a brothel at weekends', or 'Dear Mr O'Grady, this baby-farming has got to cease', so I thought it was one of those.
I need routine, otherwise I just go to the dogs; interview Emma Pinch ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
At the heart of the mystery surrounding Christine Falls's death is the Catholic church, all-powerful, far-reaching, fanatical, secretive and corrupt, whose convents and orphanages both in Dublin and Boston are involved in a lucrative baby-farming business.
Body of evidence by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
He shows that, while informal adoption was extremely widespread at all class levels, the term "adoption" had gotten a bad name due to the baby-farming scandals of the late nineteenth century and to some of the unscrupulous practices of childcare entrepreneurs like Dr.
Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940 by Gillis, John R. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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