UNBORN BABY
PARENTS’ REASON FOR
OFFERING IT FOR SALE.
NEW YORK, December 23,
A young San Francisco couple, Mr and Mrs Hubert Barnett, have decided that present-day conditions make it compulsory to dispose of their third child, which is not j T et born. Accordingly they have offered for adoption the baby whom the stork will shortly leave at their household. The following advertisement prolaims their offer: WANTED.— Someone- to adopt a ■'child alt birth. Due about Christmas. References exchanged. Mrs Barnett is 22. She married when she was 17. Air Barnett is 28. They have a girl of three and a boy of two, and they believe that a bargain can be made for the unborn child which will guarantee to it a good home. “You can’t love something you have never seen,” Mr Barnett declared yesterday when discussing the expected next member of the family. Tim successful bidder, he said, in addition to a sum of money for the adoption of tile baby, must also pay the expenses of the birth and furnish good financial references.
Mr Barnett professes to be a social reformer. He declares that if Ills wife did uoit object lie would sell all his children.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1920, Page 4
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201UNBORN BABY Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1920, Page 4
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