(Bread #1644)
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>…The Baby Scoop Era….
There were also the Orphan Trains in the US, where from 1853 to 1929, an estimated 250,000 children were sent by train from large urban areas in the East to all 48 continental states. If you read the Gulag hits, it was all wonderful and guess who's writing that history, but these children were in many cases being taken from their families, for instance single mothers were labeled unfit, to be used as labor.
Orphan Train Myths and Legal Reality
http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=tma
There's a long history of children being used this way, as the opening paragraph quoted here from the attached article attests, about children being shipped from England:
A little known part of British history is coming to light - its migrant program for young children in England , who were sent to Australia, Canada, and other British Commonwealth countries. Such programs, which began in the late 1800s and persisted well into the 1960s, shipped about 150,000 poor children, orphans, and illegitimate children to Commonweath countries where they were sent to institutions, foster homes, farms, and other places where they worked as laborers. A House of Commons report published in 1998 noted that "hardship and emotional deprivation were the common lot of child migrants, and that cases of criminal abuse were not infrequent.".