"But usually unwanted pregnancies lead to unwanted births. And then the mothers gotta answer the question of what to do with that kid that can't be stopped. Especially erstwhile you're a servant. It's a choice: on the pavement with a kid or working without a child. In addition to material defeat, they face severe punishment of the environment, anger of their father, pain and shame of their mother. She gets the mark of a whore and a kite, her baby bastard. The priest does not want to baptize him and the grandpa feed him" - writes Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak in his book "Boys. A Tale of Our Grandmothers".
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And that's where the real communicative begins, that's where the kid trade begins. The pre-war Polish press of the 1920s and 1930s is full of announcements that any female will "give up for her", that is, the kid to please, adopt, son. To treat as your own. Were these children in loving homes that could be cared for? Here there is no concrete information, but given the realities of the day, they became a inexpensive labour force, having no thought of their origin.
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I'll give the baby to a childless family. You could get rich on a baby.
The procedure of giving children to rise was erstwhile firmly rooted in Polish culture. Parents who could not supply for another kid were frequently given to a household closer or further, frequently childless couple. A small older and partially preserved were besides given up for service to manors and palaces. It's an unpleasant part of a communicative that's not much to talk about.
But the scary thing present is that the desire to donate a kid was announced in the press. In 1 of the pre-war issues of "My Friend" of 1939, I came across specified announcements: "I will give a daughter 16-month-old, healthy, beautiful to honest people. delight kindly address the announcements section 'My Friend'`; "For 9 years I have been taking care of an orphan (a very intelligent girl) who will be given to a childless matrimony due to hard material conditions".
Similar announcements were much more and appeared mainly in local diary releases. "I'll give my beautiful daughter, black hair, blue large eyes. 10th Monthly" - this announcement that appeared in the Illustrated "Daily Courier" (1928). Of course, among the listed advantages of the small ones to be given (pretty, blushed, photogenic, polite - adjectives were a lot), there were besides prices of specified "exchange". The word "payment" was not utilized here, but alternatively "one-time remuneration". How much did the mothers want for the money to quit the baby? About 5/6 1000 zlotys. For the then times (the beginning of the 1930s), this was a very advanced amount, which for comparison corresponded almost 100 times the wage of the physical individual at the lowest level.
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The announcements of giving up the kid seem cruel to us today, but they were frequently written out of love and concern for the small one. Women for various reasons could not afford to keep their daughter or their son. They wouldn't give them to the shelter. They hoped that destiny would grin at them and go to a home full of love. They'll be fed and cared for. They'll never know hunger and cold again.
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