Watermelon Hill: Giving Birth In Secret
Recent women's history. Minnesota.
Of course, this happened all over the United States to millions of American women.
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* Nov 4, 2007 9:45 am US/Central
Watermelon Hill: Giving Birth In Secret
Reporting Don Shelby
St. Paul (WCCO) ― Hundreds of girls were forced to give away their babies during a time when society did not accept unwed mothers. Some of the girls were sent to a place in St. Paul nicknamed "Watermelon Hill".
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http://wcco.com/local/Watermelon.Hill.Catholic.2.353373.html
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***the United States is one of only four out of 168 countries studied to not have some form of paid family leave for new moms. We join Swaziland, Papua New Guinea, and Lesotho in not having that policy in place. ***
*sigh* I just can't imagine...my family is very Catholic (not me anymore...) and I wonder what would have happened had I gotten pregnant at 19...
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