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  2. Baby Scoop Era - Wikipedia

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    From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone. [2] Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975.

  3. Georgia Tann - Wikipedia

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    Adoptions in states such as Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri could be arranged for $750. [citation needed] Records indicate that between 1940 and 1950, the agency placed 3,000 children in just those two states. [17] "at a time when adoptions in Tennessee cost the princely sum of $7, some adoptions brokered by Tann cost as much as $5,000" [20]

  4. Sixties Scoop - Wikipedia

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    Each province had different foster programs and adoption policies; Saskatchewan had the only targeted Indigenous transracial adoption program, the Adopt Indian Métis (AIM) Program. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 3 ] The term "Sixties Scoop" itself was coined in the early 1980s by social workers in the British Columbia Department of Social Welfare to describe ...

  5. Adoption - Wikipedia

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    Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of ... Likely contributing factors in the 1960s and 1970s include a decline in the fertility rate, ...

  6. Baby farming - Wikipedia

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    In the 1960s and 70s, thousands of West African children were privately fostered by white families in the UK in a phenomenon known as 'farming'. The biological parents were usually students in the UK who also had a job. They placed ads in the newspapers looking for foster families to care for their children. [16] [17]

  7. International adoption of South Korean children - Wikipedia

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    Adoption from South Korea began in 1955 when Bertha and Harry Holt went to Korea and adopted eight war orphans after passing a law through Congress. [6] Their work resulted in the founding of Holt International Children's Services. The first Korean babies sent to Europe went to Sweden via the Social Welfare Society in the mid-1960s.

  8. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    Forced adoption in the United Kingdom removed children permanently from their parents. 1960s-1980s Highlighted by the Dutch current affairs show Zembla in 2017, purportedly 11,000 babies were fraudulently sold for adoption in the 1980s from Sri Lanka to western countries, with the use of baby farms to meet the apparent high demand. [3] [4] [5 ...

  9. Helmut Kentler - Wikipedia

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    Helmut Kentler (2 July 1928 – 9 July 2008) was a German psychologist, sexologist and professor of social education at the University of Hannover.From the late 1960s until the early 1990s, with the authorization and financial support of the Berlin Senate, Kentler placed several neglected youth aged 13 to 15 as foster children in the homes of single pedophile fathers.