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Baby-farming
Baby-farming was a term used in late-Victorian Britain (and, less commonly, in Australia and the United States) to mean the taking in of an infant or child for payment. Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments.
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