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Adoption and Death Rates in Orphanages
Adoption had not been popular in part because of the thought that orphans came from unmarried women. A 1918 report titled The Unmarried Mother, a study of 500 cases, describes them as repulsive and depraved. People worried that the children would inherit their mother's weak moral character. These children were considered tainted goods.