Today on NPR's All Things Considered, there was an interview with author Lisa Grunweld. She wrote a book I read last year called The Irresistible Henry House. This book is about Henry House, a "practice baby" being raised on the campus of a mid-west college.
Although this story is fictionalized, practice babies were a real part of college life in the U.S. for some 50 years. Practice babies were orphaned babies placed at "houses" in colleges across the country to help teach female students "domestic skills."
My bookclub read this book last year and we had a lively discussion about parenting, attachment theory and adoption.
It's worth a read.
Check out the interview here: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/06/132708047/practice-babies-an-outdated-practice-discovered-west
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