baby farm
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
baby farm (plural baby farms)
- (informal) An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.
- Synonym: baby factory
- 2000, Peter Watt, Cry of the Curlew:
- But the bastard son of Fiona and Michael Duffy had been sent to a baby farm.
- 2005, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary, page 363:
- As he did a little pamphlet fell out. It was kind of pink in color. At the top it said "Rangsit Home for Babies." It was a little booklet that told all about the baby farm at Rangsit. It was printed by the government of the country where Rangsit was.
- 2012, Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician:
- The FBI and police handled the investigation and found where she had delivered the baby, which was a black market baby farm preying on young pregnant women who did not want to keep their babies.
- 2013, Carol J Larson, The Baby Farm:
- “Her mother ran a baby farm before she became a whore," Rosemary said. "Put Sage and three other children in here when she got sick. Sage know all about that life. After all, she lived it."
Usage notes[edit]
- The term baby farm carries the connotation of a poor standard of care for the children it houses and nourishes.
References[edit]
- “baby farm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.