Thursday, July 26, 2012

Spanish Baby Snatching

A Spanish Civil War era scheme that continued until the 1990s where almost 300,000 "Red" women's babies were stolen from them shortly after delivery and placed in conservative families in an effort to make their children more conservative and reshape the nation is starting to be unraveled.

This was one of the grandest nature v. nuture experiments in modern history, although the results are unknown and the methods violated every principle of experiments on human subjects.

2 comments:

terryt said...

"the results are unknown and the methods violated every principle of experiments on human subjects".

The results WOULD be interesting though.

Alejandro Rivero said...

It seems that the procedure, done openly in the sixties, has generated a lot of internal women folklore and urban legends. Regretly the grannies are very secretive about it. But I can report at least of a legend where early abortions were secretly grown in high tech clinics in Barcelona and then sold to suitable families. And generically, it seems that it was a motivation to look for private hospitals to give birth, as the band was known to operate unde the cover of the public health system, in charge of the charities.