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Tennessee Children's Home Society

Privat amerikansk børneforsorgsorganisation, grundlagt i Tennessee i 1897, der under Georgia Tanns ledelse blev centrum for en af USA's største adoptionsskandaler i det 20. århundrede.

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Between 1926 and 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency that trafficked an estimated 5,000 children to wealthy out-of-state families. Her black market operation involved kidnapping, coercion, forgery, and systematic abuse—generating over $1 million in illegal profits before state investigators closed her operation.