The Ideal Maternity Home Opened in the late 1920s and would end up running through the late 1940s. The two owners would be rolling in dough and babies, but unlike a lot of adoption agencies now, the children were not in the best conditions. Every single infant under their care was living in dirty beds filled with flies and millions of other babies, and  if they were deemed not marketable, they would be left to die and be buried in Butterboxes.