Compulsory adoption was the remedy suggested for some social inequalities by a recent correspondent in our columns, Mrs Charles Dana Gibson, of New York, is a believer in the voluntary adoption, by those who can afford it, of children who might otherwise be worse provided for. A sister of Lady Astor and the wife of the famous illustrator and creator of the “Gibson Girl,” Mrs Gibson is also chairwoman of the committee of the American New Child Adoption 'League, which has “Adopt a baby” for its slogan. The league was recently organised to “show Uncle Forty and Aunt Fifty, whose own child ran have left home,” that they will be the happier for a new life brought to them by its means.
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Evening Star, Issue 18333, 21 July 1923, Page 9
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122Compulsory adoption was the remedy suggested for some social inequalities by a recent correspondent in our columns, Mrs Charles Dana Gibson, of New York, is a believer in the voluntary adoption, by those who can afford it, of children who might otherwise be worse provided for. A sister of Lady Astor and the wife of the famous illustrator and creator of the “Gibson Girl,” Mrs Gibson is also chairwoman of the committee of the American New Child Adoption 'League, which has “Adopt a baby” for its slogan. The league was recently organised to “show Uncle Forty and Aunt Fifty, whose own child ran have left home,” that they will be the happier for a new life brought to them by its means. Evening Star, Issue 18333, 21 July 1923, Page 9
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