{"id":1067,"date":"2018-12-19T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:04:51","slug":"1931-better-baby-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1931-better-baby-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"1931: &#8220;Better Baby Contest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1068\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1068\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1068\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-5.49.14-PM-300x185.png\" alt=\"http:\/\/museumofdisability.org\/virtual-museum\/society-wing\/eugenics-exhibit\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-5.49.14-PM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-5.49.14-PM.png 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper clip advertising the &#8220;Better Baby Contest&#8221; at a State Fair\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/museumofdisability.org\/virtual-museum\/society-wing\/eugenics-exhibit\/\">http:\/\/museumofdisability.org\/virtual-museum\/society-wing\/eugenics-exhibit\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The clip from a newspaper published in 1931 is advertising a \u201cBetter Baby Contest\u201d at a State Fair in Michigan. After the large influx of immigrants to the United States, people began to fear that the superior race, Anglo-Saxon\u2019s, were not reproducing enough and their population was slowly decreasing (Burgin 2018). Contests like the one being marketed above at State Fairs were attempting to encourage the most fit and qualified, white people to show off their perfect Anglo-Saxon babies and win a cash prize. In order to participate you must have a baby, which is why these \u201cBetter Baby Contests\u201d began to spread through the nation as a way of encouraging Anglo-Saxons to have babies. Contests like these piggy back off of Sanger\u2019s push to limit unfit woman from reproducing through her combination of eugenics and the Birth Control Movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>POST 1940s<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clip from a newspaper published in 1931 is advertising a \u201cBetter Baby Contest\u201d at a State Fair in Michigan. After the large influx of immigrants to the United States,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1931-better-baby-contest\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dori-auslander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}