Lila Gladys and William Peach Young are not often discussed among the greats of true crime figures, yet there are an estimated 400-600 deaths attributed to the couple between adult and infant patients.
The Ideal Maternity Home was a dark mark on the history of Canada, and was responsible for nearly 1,500 illegal adoptions from 1928 - 1947, racking up millions of dollars in the process.
Today I attempt to cover the story and explain how such a cruel and inhumane institution was allowed to operate for so long, seemingly scott-free.
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Butterbox Babies, Seal Books 1991. ISBN 978-0-7704-2517-3
Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later, Fernwood Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-55266-213-7
Naomi Greene, A Tale of the Cold War: Jews, Catholics, and Black Market Babies, Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 38, Issue 2, May 2018, Pages 131-159,
BALCOM, KAREN. “Scandal and Social Policy: The Ideal Maternity Home and the Evolution of Social Policy in Nova Scotia, 1940-51.” Acadiensis, vol. 31, no. 2, 2002, pp. 3-37. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30302865. Accessed 3 Nov. 2023.