13: Dionne Quintuplets, the Human Zoo Pardon My Enthusiasm

Bro, bro, bro… Why are babies being put in a human zoo??? Dionne quintuplets.
The big conversation on child exploitation.
Let’s talk about it.

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Denison, Merrill. "Infant Industry: The Quintuplets". Harper's Magazine. (1938). Condensed in Readers Digest 33(200), December 1938, pp. 104–07.
http://wp.quintland.com/family/elzire-dionne/#:~:text=Elzire%20Dionne%20(born%20Legros)%20was,her%20mother%20used%20to%20do.
https://time.com/5555131/dionne-quintuplets-kidfluencers/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3266773/inside-the-tragic-tortured-lives-of-the-worlds-first-quintuplets-who-were-taken-from-their-parents-and-exhibited-in-a-zoo-for-5billion/
Berton, Pierre (1978). The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama. W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393332268. The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama.
Reprinted in Clay, Marie M. (1991). Quadruplets and Higher Multiple Births. Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0521412234.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-pretended-be-doctor-ran-worlds-fair-attraction-saved-lives-thousands-premature-babies-180960200/
We Were Five and Family Secrets by Cécile, Yvonne, and Annette Dionne.