FREE: Butterbox Babies by Bette Cahill

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pb 1992

Stories about the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia have been the subject of public trials and private whisperings for half a century. Now, after 3 yrs of research and scores of interviews from coast to coast, author Bette Cahill reveals the truth about the Home, its owners, the babies who were born there, and those who died there. It is a truth that will horrify and enrage, for in these pages Cahill charges that the children of unwed mothers born the the Ideal Maternity Home were offered for adoption a a manner that amounted to little more than baby farming for profit.
Butterbox Babies is a story of greed, hypocrisy and justice. It is also the moving story of chioldren who survived the Ideal Maternitiy Home and their search for the past. Bette Cahill traces their lives today as their search leads them from disappointment, to rejection and in some cases the joy of reunion with the parents they never knew.