A HIDDEN HISTORY:
African Women and the
British Health Service
1930–2000

The practice of private fostering or the ‘farming’ of African children to white families, usually while their parents were studying. See private fostering.

Is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, but there's no medical reason for this to be done.

To take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent.