[Ads-l] "forever home"

[Nancy Friedman]

Many thanks! Garson's citations are what I'd been looking for.

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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 7:20 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The phrase was used by the "Children's Home Society" in June 1959.
>
> Date: June 19, 1959
> Newspaper: The Whittier News
> Newspaper Location: Whittier, California
> Article: Children's Home Auxiliary Future Forecast At Installation Luncheon
> Quote Page 6, Column 6
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/683989970/
>
> [Begin excerpt – check for typos]
> "Older children can be more readily helped in such a setting; and even
> tiny babies reflect the personal love and care of their foster
> family," she said, adding that all of the children are regularly
> checked at the society's clinic. When the child goes to his new
> "forever" home, he is well adjusted both physically and emotionally,
> according to the direction.
> [End excerpt]
>
> The last word might be a mistake in the newspaper article. The word
> "director" makes more sense, I think.
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:52 AM ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to Stephen and Dave. It looks like "forever home" with the
> > pertinent sense was in use by December 1962. I only looked in
> > newapapers.com, and my search was impeded by the irrelevant matches
> > generated by simple queries. Hence, this should be antedatable.
> >
> > Date: December 16, 1962
> > Newspaper: The News and Observer
> > Newspaper Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
> > Article: Children Want 'Forever Homes'
> > Section 4, Quote Page 15
> > Database: Newspapers.com
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Children Want 'Forever Homes'
> >
> > Some children want shiny electric trains for Christmas. Some want
> > dolls that talk and cry. Four children, now in the care of the
> > Children's Home Society, only want "forever homes."
> >
> > A "forever home" is a place of one's own with one's own mother and
> > father, not a foster home or a temporary home but one for always—like
> > other children have.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:18 AM dave at wilton.net <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It appears that the phrase started to gain currency around 1971, at
> least that's when the hits in ProQuest Historical Newspapers start. Here's
> the earliest I've found in a quick search (searching for "forever home" and
> "adopt"):
> > >
> > > “Custody Battles Mar the Joys of Adoption.” Philadelphia Daily News,
> 12 October 1971, 39. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
> > >
> > > “In any case, the child now legally belongs to its new parents, to a
> ‘forever’ home. ‘No one can get that child away from you,’ says Mrs. Noyes."
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "Stephen Goranson" <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
> > > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 8:17am
> > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "forever home"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not sure if this fits your request, but Christian Register [Boston MA]
> July 4, 1846, p. 108 [4]/1 has a poem, “From the Orphan’s Advocate,” “Mary
> and Jesus” By Mrs. M. E. Robbins, [Readex Am. Hist. Newsp.] about child
> Jesus wearing clothes Mary made and ends:
> > > The garments which her dear child wore
> > >  Would more and more become
> > > Like to the heaven which beamed on him
> > >  His own forever home.
> > > The Orphan’s Advocate and Social Monitor [1845-1852] apparently was
> also published in Boston.
> > > Also reprinted in Godey’s Lady’s Book Aug. 1, 1845 [Ebsco]
> > > Stephen
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Nancy Friedman <wordworking at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:41 PM
> > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Subject: "forever home"
> > >
> > > I'm looking for the origins of this phrase in the secular sense: a
> > > permanent home for a foster child or a pet. OED has only "Heaven, his
> > > forever home" (1910).
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > Nancy Friedman
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