Since the 1992 publication of Butterbox Babies, the Ideal Maternity Home in Chester, Nova Scotia has become synonymous with illegal adoptions and suspicious baby deaths. In this comprehensive book, author and Survivor Robert Hartlen has compiled the personal stories of thirty-six of the adult adoptees who survived the Ideal Maternity Home. Also included are stories of some of the birth mothers who gave up their children and some of the adopted mothers who claimed the babies as their own.
