Witchcraft for Wayward Girls: The Secret History of The Baby Scoop Era Homes for Unwed Mothers

"My life was built on someone else’s loss, and nobody would let me talk about it." - from "The Girls That Went Away" In this episode, host Katie Madonna Lee explores the haunting history of baby scoop era homes for unwed mothers—and how their echoes linger today.Through Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix and The Girls That Went Away by Anne Flesser, Katie examines how shame, secrecy, and control shaped generations of women—and how those same forces still shape our culture’s view of motherhood, morality, and choice.