"Because there are many more married couples wanting to
adopt newborn white babies than there are babies, it may almost
be said that they rather than out of wedlock babies are a social
problem. (Sometimes social workers in adoption agencies have
facetiously suggested setting up social provisions for more
'babybreeding'.)" SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS,
National Association of Social Workers, (Out-of-print) copyright
1964
"... the tendency growing out of the demand for babies
is to regard unmarried mothers as breeding machines...(by people
intent) upon securing babies for quick adoptions." -
Leontine Young, "Is Money Our Trouble?" (paper presented
at the National Conference of Social Workers, Cleveland, 1953)
{quote courtesy of Karen WB}
"When a worker can see that, had the unmarried mother
wanted a baby for normal reasons, she would have fallen in love,
married, and had a child under normal circumstances, the worker's
problem begins to resolve itself..." OUT OF WEDLOCK,
Leontine Young
". . . women having out-of wedlock children tend to be
rather disturbed people. While the American middle-class girl
flouting the conventions by an illegitimate pregnancy may well
be emotionally sicker than her English, working-class cousins."-
Jane Rowe, adoption social worker, 1950 - 1970
"White girls who have illegitimate babies by coloured
men are often emotionally ill as well as socially defiant."-
Jane Rowe, adoption social worker 1950 - 1970
