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[quote=Anonymous]Consider that the government didn’t always swoop in to aid families. Typically families took care of their own so to speak and “took in” or boarded or fostered or “adopted” children in any type of need. Two such cases in my own family; one was an aunt sent away to live with relatives in a rural area supposedly because she had health issues and was struggling being in a cramped apartment (I think she had what now would be considered some significant developmental delays). Absolutely heartbreaking. The other was even earlier - a daughter living at home had a baby out of wedlock! Listed on census records as “adopted” but never was legally. By the time this child died circa 1970, his obituary referred to him as child of his birth mother, no mention of adoption.[/quote]
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