In the unironic way. I expected it to exist in some form, but being this formalized? wow.
Anyway it's apparently still a thing https://inspirationalwomenseries.com/mail-order-bride-sites/ yikes-2

And you used to be able to get them from Ukraine! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3249478/

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    I saw an ad from the like 1930s for buying "healthy" indigenous children from those residential schools to do farm/house work and "raise" until adulthood.

    settler colonial states and their affection for slave labor are inseparable.