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Foreign News
February 25, 1786
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
In Berlin and major Prussian towns, institutions provide secret care for unmarried pregnant women, including post-birth discharge with 50 crowns for a son or 10 for a daughter, encouraging illicit affairs but preventing infanticide.
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There is in Berlin, and in every considerable town in the Prussian dominions, a certain edifice, properly furnished and properly attended, to which every unmarried woman who has the misfortune of being with child may repair, before her shame becomes publick. The utmost secrecy is observed; the patient is treated with every possible care and indulgence; and a month after her laying-in, is discharged with a present of fifty crowns, if she has a son, and ten crowns if she has a daughter.—These establishments undoubtedly give encouragement to illicit amours: but that evil is more than compensated, inasmuch as all temptations to the murder of illegitimate children is removed.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Welfare
Infanticide Prevention
What keywords are associated?
Prussian Maternity Institutions
Unmarried Pregnant Women
Illegitimate Children
Infanticide Prevention
Berlin Welfare
Where did it happen?
Berlin, Prussian Dominions
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Berlin, Prussian Dominions
Outcome
removes temptations to murder illegitimate children; discharge with 50 crowns for son, 10 for daughter
Event Details
Institutions in Berlin and major Prussian towns offer secret care and indulgence to unmarried pregnant women before public shame; patient discharged a month after birth with monetary present based on child's gender.