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NY Orphanages in the 1800s
01:54 - 06:06 (04:12)
The New York orphanages in the 1800s were overcrowded and unhealthy environments for children. The man tasked with improving the system, Charles Loring Brace, employed a controversial method of shipping children to farmland in the Midwest to save them from a life of poverty and scruffiness in the city.
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The episode explores the story of Georgia Tann, a former director of the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, who kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families, popularizing a highly illegal practice that lasted for nearly three decades in the US.
01:54 - 02:24 (00:30)
Summary
The episode explores the story of Georgia Tann, a former director of the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, who kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families, popularizing a highly illegal practice that lasted for nearly three decades in the US.
ChapterNY Orphanages in the 1800s
EpisodePart One: The Woman Who Invented Adoption (By Stealing Thousands of Babies)
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Georgia Tan was instrumental in building the modern structure through which we adopt children in the United States, but her methods, including kidnapping, falsifying documents, and bribery, were often illegal and harmful to families.
02:27 - 03:06 (00:39)
Summary
Georgia Tan was instrumental in building the modern structure through which we adopt children in the United States, but her methods, including kidnapping, falsifying documents, and bribery, were often illegal and harmful to families.
ChapterNY Orphanages in the 1800s
EpisodePart One: The Woman Who Invented Adoption (By Stealing Thousands of Babies)
PodcastBehind the Bastards
In this episode, the hosts explore the dark history of eugenics, which was practiced all over the world and used as an excuse for genocide, sterilization of "undesirables" and racial segregation.
03:06 - 04:13 (01:06)
Summary
In this episode, the hosts explore the dark history of eugenics, which was practiced all over the world and used as an excuse for genocide, sterilization of "undesirables" and racial segregation.
ChapterNY Orphanages in the 1800s
EpisodePart One: The Woman Who Invented Adoption (By Stealing Thousands of Babies)
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Charles Dickens observed a large group of homeless children in New York and predicted that they posed a risk of social upheaval in the future, given the context of violent revolutions across Europe in 1848.
04:13 - 06:06 (01:53)
Summary
Charles Dickens observed a large group of homeless children in New York and predicted that they posed a risk of social upheaval in the future, given the context of violent revolutions across Europe in 1848.