Over the years I've learned that the most common practice during the Great Depression was for an aggressive young man to put his efforts toward buying more land "cheap".
I know of one fellow who ended up owning SECTIONS ~ that's a really huge chunk of land ~ by anybody's standard ~ and he never married momma ~ and adopted out all his kids.
When I got to know about them the kids were still trying to reassemble the family. Momma had already died.
By adopting them out the guy sought to disinherit everyone ~ except for the daughter he was sleeping with.
There's still some of that going on up there.
Not to our knowledge. So if you can't name names of any current practitioners, I'd suggest you keep your accusations of perversions to your own venue.