baby farmer

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Noun1.Baby farmer - someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a feebaby farmer - someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee
keeper - someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?"
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Philip's mind was full of the stories he had heard of baby-farming and the ghouls who ill-treat the wretched children that selfish, cruel parents have put in their charge.
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What emerged from the subsequent investigation was that James, herself a mother of three, had become involved in the world of baby-farming. This was the days before adoption was regulated and women often ended up selling their newborns to an agent, acting on behalf of a childless couple.
A second look at the woman Wales hanged
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "baby farm" as "a derogatory term for a place where the lodging and care of babies is undertaken for profit" (cited in Ruth Ellen Homrighaus, 2001, "Wolves in Women's clothing: Baby-Farming and the British Medical Journal, 1860-1872," Journal of Family History, 26(3), 365N4).
What constitutes child neglect? The tragic story of the Boutique Children's Hotel, 1971

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