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TIL this date in 1857, my Great Uncle, a Mormon leader, began distributing children under the age of 8 to families in central Utah to adopt. He and his other Mormon friends had slit the throats of all the other children and adults.

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KRAE TIL that a father in South Carolina almost lost custody of his infant daughter when she was put up for adoption by her mother. 33 states require unmarried fathers to register as ‘responsible fathers’ in order to retain the right to be notified of an adoption or termination of parental rights action.
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