baby farm

plural baby farms · alternative baby-farm

1. informalAn institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.

   But the bastard son of Fiona and Michael Duffy had been sent to a baby farm.

   2000, Peter Watt, Cry of the Curlew

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   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.

   2005, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary, page 363

   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.

   2012, Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician

   “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."

   2013, Carol J Larson, The Baby Farm

   Synonyms: baby factory