description: Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babiesher ongoing examination, revealing the sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors searching for their birth parents.
language: English
title: Butterbox Babies: The Shocking Story of Baby Deaths and Black-Market Adoptions
titlecomplete: Butterbox Babies: The Shocking Story of Baby Deaths and Black-Market Adoptions
genres: Canada, Historical, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Biography Memoir, Adoption, Biography
ratings_count: 260
places: Nova Scotia
publisher: Yankee Books