The online magazine Salon has a story (gotta view an ad first, sorry) about a book chronicling the post-World War II phenomenon of sending away young women from “good families” before their pregnancy showed …. and then taking away the babies, without the young moms having a say in the matter.

I’m not old enough to remember such times, but my mother sure is. Which is why when I bought my house in Tahoe Park some 17 years ago (I’ve since moved), my mom said, “Oh! It’s near the Fair Haven Home.”

“The what?” I said.

“Oh you know,” said Mom. “That’s where girls went then they got pregnant … in the old days, they’d just ‘disappear’ from school — visiting relatives or some such excuse — and then turn up again later. We knew that they’d gone to Fair Haven, had their babies and returned.”

Fair Haven is still there, but in a sign of the changing times, it’s a home for senior citizens now. Check it out: It’s on the west side of 63rd Street, halfway between 14th and 21st avenues.