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I have it! I enjoy your stories and storytelling! An exceptional narrator! The word is lov❤. Can you find some more stories from my country, Jamaica 🇯🇲? Respect.

Yes that would be great, a remembrance day for these forgotten children, discarded and lost to time.

The picture early on (2:23) with the girl on the left was very pointed. She was the only one without shoes and was obviously on the outer.

Totally agree. The unjust social conditions, treatment of women and how they treated their babies in such distress, is bringing me to tears. It doesn't get any worse than this.

👋😁 Love this guy

Thankyou so much :)

That is one of the highlights...I've learned so much about my own (USA) and other countries.

Thanks Sheila

The child abuse was harsh, even worse are the centuries before the 1700s...

Yes, I wonder about that as well. Maybe it was both with a little lump of a cold heart mixed in there somewhere, but it was clearly a whole other world back then.

Same. Love Brief Case's videos!

Haha,😂 love it

Not me love!! 🙁😢😢

Scot free. Everyone is spelling this wrong! Agree though. Unbelievably sad

@@lazyhomebody1356 yes your right I should have noticed it , spellcheck overrides my spelling sometimes, I have corrected it now 👍😍

@@hablin1 just kidding around-- "you're right" lol. Spellcheck is not being a friend today,lol

@@lazyhomebody1356 yes and I live in Germany so it switches to German words if I’m not careful, but it makes for interesting reading 🤣🤣😍

Not just laudanum, but also straight gin! Google "gin babies" and you'll be amazed.

So many photos from that time did not show a person in the best light

I was itching to give her a makeover. She could have been beautiful,lol

​@@lazyhomebody1356😂😂😂😂

@@BriefCaseOfficialAgreed. Often it was due to the length of time they had to pose for the picture to be taken. They had to be very still. So they had to maintain an expression that was easy to hold for longer periods.

Thanks Resa :)

We did stop hearing about her other children. The ones who survived let’s freakin’ hope ended up with their dads or family. Hope against hope, but possible.

😢 they didn't think much of the lives of poor children or the destitute lives of the mother's of the children 😢. Times have changed...

A vicious cycle of poverty , indifference, and judgement ,created the desperate need for this practice. That the results would sometimes be horrific is a foregone conclusion.

She took advantage of the most vulnerable. So disgusting. Those poor babies, what a miserable way to live. She was pure evil. And what was up with that hat?!? Belongs in hell with her.

The sad thing is, that most of the care givers of that time were overwhelmed. So it really doesn't matter who those children were placed with, they probably were not going to get 1st class care.

She did give at least one away. If people could pay her she might have able to care for the children. I’m with you, she should have stopped. There were no jobs apparently. Idk

At that time there were really no social service and CPS as such. The parishes used to have a practice of auctionong out orphans to those who required least pay to take them in, they often were doing quite a deal of labour. Those unwed mothers who were from families that were better off in economic terms were typically able to go to other placera to give birth and the child were often "taken/placed" with relatives and registred as the relatives' own child which wasfairly easy to so when people often delivered their babies att home. It was not uncommon up to just a few decades ago that people discovered that who they believed to be their patents weren't, usually with some medical issue initiating the discovery.

We can't imagine how poor, helpless and desperate people were in those times. I do genealogy research on my family and have found out a little about the late 1800:s. Hygiene was almost unheard of, and bacteria were not yet discovered. People had no idea how diseases spread. All members in a family could use the same cloth to wipe their noses, for example. Alva was probably starving now and then. With starvation comes weakness, damaged internal organs and a greater risk of becoming ill. She almost certainly had very bad teeth (or no teeth left!) as a result. Her brain would have taken damage, and her judgment. I'm not justifying her actions, just trying to imagine the terrible situation. It was a way for her to survive. She would not have gotten a lot of money from the parents, and probably just once. Therefore she would take care of many children, to try and get more payments. I can't imagine having so many children to take care of by yourself - not getting any sleep, getting colds and worse... Many stories tell of these women giving the children cloths dipped in alcohol to suck on. It was a very unfair society. I England, Charles Dickens wrote his books about Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby etc. to protest against the unfair treatment of the poor. During one period it was, for example, illegal to be unemployed in Sweden!

You sound like a fool.

Today's economy,,,

Yeah, I'm glad at least something good came out of all those deaths. And glad to hear your ancestors made it over safely, not everyone did! Do you know where they were from?

@@foo219 unfortunately, I do not know the region they came from. I was told that my great grandmother was born on ship on the way over and the family name is Soderquist. I don't have a lot of memories of my Grandpa Soderquist before he had alzheimer's, but I did learn one swedish phrase which translates to, " let the food keep your mouth closed". I heard that one a lot, haha.

⁠@@hollymorris785 It should be easy to find out. The family home town should be on the immigration record.

@Holly Morris I had the same reaction. All four of my father's grandparents emigrated from Sweden to the USA during that period. Fascinating!

@@hollymorris785 Does it mean, "Shut up and eat" or "Chew with your mouth closed"? 😂

Thanks for watching, hope you are OK :)

@@BriefCaseOfficial aren’t you sweet! I’m doing well. Hope your well too

Surely I'd doesn't happen anymore

Morning!

Good morning, Caddie! ❤

Hi, Caddy 🙋🏻‍♀️

@@BriefCaseOfficial Hey there buddy 🤗

@@resarm5007 Top of the morning to you too 😊😊😊

Thanks Lucie

This happens when the Social Services are weaken to the point. The oldest profession is Sex Work and most unmarried women during those times did to survive. Men really have no clue how expensive raising a child is.

Minnie Dean from New Zealand

If that was in Russia, the children would have been eaten, maybe with some turnips, pumpkins, radish & onions, they don't even need the excuse of a "war", although having a war gives them an excuse to cannibalize their kids, it happened in WW2, and in some cases they even "shrunk" their children, with sometimes even "head-shrinking" ceremonies taking place, this is what happens in Communist Russia.

Imagine the women prisons at that time... definition of hell

If having a hard life was a legitimate excuse to be a piece of 💩, we would have little to no valuable role models to look up to...

@@maramarxx2431I think you are right, but prisons generally seem unthinkable. No running water, no heat, no fans even, the only books allowed often being the Bible, no programs, some disallowed talking, no regulations regarding food or bedding…the women probably had little protection from abuse, like now, but might have had slightly better sleeping areas because of being women and being separated from men in men’s prisons. Of course having to deal with so many men might make such small populations of women neglected. Idk as a woman I wouldn’t break the law now and doubly wouldn’t have 120 years ago. Lol

I don’t think she was evil she didn’t set out to kill the children , she was just a victim of the times I’m sure she wasn’t the only woman who did these things to get by but she got caught 😩 that doesn’t mean I think what she did was right she deserved her hard Labour no doubt about that no wonder Sweden has such a high benefits system now to stop this sort of thing happening again ❤️

@@hablin1 RE SWEDEN: Apparently, Illegal Immigrants wholeheartedly agree with you ... Stay free? R 👋 🕊

Good morning!

@@BriefCaseOfficial Next time I hop across the pond, let’s have a pint!

I no longer live in the UK but go back often so let me know when you are there

@@BriefCaseOfficial I absolutely shall! And you are always welcome if you’re ever in the US. I’ll cook/bake you whatever last meal request you would like. I’m going to start doing that every Friday. A last request meal and watching docus about the person who made it. I think it would be loads of fun.

Thnks T&C, nice to see you here again :)

Thanks Annie, I hope the pronunciations were OK, I always find Swedish difficult :(

Thanks Courtney

Hi Janet, yes one or two, Minnie Dean from New Zealand was a similar case

@@BriefCaseOfficial I'll read back catalogue and listen again x

Thanks for watching :)

Agreed. In these sort of cases men need to be held accountable because they helped create life so they should help out. And if they refuse well then they should feel the wrath of the community, be forced to face shame and loss of face for their actions.

Its quite early here

​@@BriefCaseOfficial it midday in South Africa, cold a bit here today 😊

1.30 in the afternoon in 🇮🇹 Italy.. 🙋🏻‍♀️

Hi Lisa, yes I had a bit of the flu a couple of weeks ago when I recorded this but all better now :)

Wow. It went right by me! You are a very sensitive soul

Pleased to hear it Dee :)

Glad you're back, Dee.👍

Welcome

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the Monday morning laugh! happy for you!!!!

Thanks Janine

Thank you very much Elke :)

​@@BriefCaseOfficial No mention!

So sorry to read your story, I hope you re in a better place now

@@BriefCaseOfficial I am and thank you very much for the kind words

I know! I have endless patience with the vulnerable who need help, animal or human. :(

I'm so glad you're doing better

@@lazyhomebody1356 🙏🏽

Thankyou :)

Hi James, got my coffee too, this year the clocks did not change where I am so its 5am, it always was 6am

ditto!

Oh dear, hope this week is better for you

@@BriefCaseOfficial I hope so as well! 🤞 I do have three more nights before I'm off. I do have my co-worker with me tonight and the rest of them. At least I'm not by myself.

Morning Elizabeth

Had a bit of flu but all OK now, thanks

​@@BriefCaseOfficial Glad to hear! You had already 6 ads! 👍🏻My way of help. Still listening

Hi Sean

It wasn’t. I’m Swedish and the stigma of being an unmarried mother was common well into the mid 1900s.

@@annie_xo it was the same everywhere. The US, Britain, Europe at least.

The outrage did not extend to forcing the fathers to provide for their children, either. 🙄

Good morning Jordan

Thanks :)

@@BriefCaseOfficial actually thank you Sir👌✨

Glad you think so!

Thankyou, Yes Anna Månsdotter, I did say that at the end, hope my pronounciations were OK :)

@@BriefCaseOfficial Yes I heard you say that in the end and yes you did amazing :) (as always) :)

Thankyou, had a bit of flu but all good now

@@BriefCaseOfficial I’m glad you’re feeling better.

Thanks Dawn

Thanks David

Thank you so much

Morning!

Thanks :)

I had to look up who that is

Thanks Andrea

Women were held 100% responsible for any babies, even though it has always taken two to make one. Where was any outrage at the fathers who walked away scot free? Not to mention that infant mortality was very high, and even higher in the unsanitary conditions that the poor had to suffer. Did Anna have to take in 17 children? No, but what would have happened to them otherwise? What other options were available? Society was outraged, but did society *do* anything to prevent these tragedies?

Thanks Bob

Not my first this was actually my 4th case from Sweden

@@BriefCaseOfficial Guess I just wanted to forget all the horrors that happened in Sweden. In any case, don't stop what you are doing! Love this channel!

Thanks!

Thank you so much

Wow, thank you!

Thank you so much

Thanks for listening

Morning Joanne

Thanks for watching Shannon, I hope all is good with you

@Brief Case I'm doing well. Just waiting on results of a biopsy I just had done yesterday. Watching and rewatching your videos are helping me keep my mind off the anxiety of waiting