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Baby farmer   /bˈeɪbi fˈɑrmər/   Listen
Baby farmer

noun
1.
Someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee.





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"Baby farmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... any sort of work, the ostracism of her former friends added to her own self-accusation, the poverty and loneliness, the final ten days in the hospital, and the great temptation which comes after that, to give away her child. The baby farmer who haunts the public hospitals for such cases tells her that upon the payment of forty or fifty dollars, he will take care of the child for a year and that "maybe it won't live any longer than that," and ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams
... which Glory had fled out of the fog was a little dingy tobacconist's shop opening on a narrow alley that runs from Holborn into Lincoln's-Inn Fields. It was kept by the baby farmer whom she had met at the house of Polly Love, and the memory of the address thrust upon her there had been her only resource on that day of crushing disappointment and that night of peril. Mrs. Jupe's husband, a waiter at a West End club, was a simple and helpless creature, very fond ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine


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