Excerpt from The Traffic in Babies: An Analysis of the Conditions Discovered During an Investigation Conducted in the Year 1914 Among other means used for disposing of illegitimate children, or legitimate ones Whose parents will not care for them, may be mentioned the following: having them adopted by a private family for a certain price; having them boarded in boarding homes; giving them over to a midwife or some irresponsible person. There is no let or hindrance to the traffic. Permission need not be obtained from the city or the state; nothing is necessary for such a transaction to be consummated other than the desire of the parent to be rid of offspring and the willingness of some one else to receive it. Chil dren may be procured from hospitals, or from women in whose care they have been placed, by merely asking for them and paying a fee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.