Okay, do y'all know what "Home Children" are? 🙋‍♂️

I'm a 🇨🇦 history nerd, and literally had no idea what this was until this morning.

It turns out it's a weird and twisted part of history, 🇨🇦 plays an active role in hiding.

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2/ Basically if you were an orphan in the UK or commonwealth, you were rounded up and used as a slave.

This also happened to poor families that were tricked into giving up their kids "temporarily" into better care, only to come back and find out their kids were gone.

3/ Eventually there was too many kids, so they decided they would export them.

"Parents" in countries like Canada would go to homes, pay an "adoption fee," and get kids under indentured contracts.

4/ Indentured contracts are when someone is forced to work, beaten, and often compensated with a minor wage withheld until they complete the job.

It's slavery. Except owners also have incentive to work the person to death before the contract was up, so they don't have to pay.

5/ Anyway, so Canada brought in over 100,000 of these kids to work on farms, factories, etc. This happened until 1948.

These adoption agencies were also pioneers in customer service. You could return the kid at anytime as well.

Coincidentally also avoiding paying the kid money.