{"id":1469,"date":"2015-03-19T19:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=1469"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:54:01","slug":"born-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=1469","title":{"rendered":"War Babies: Born in Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. & Mrs. Hal Bowie and baby daughter Lea,
Laguna, Philippines 1945
(U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)<\/p><\/div>\n

From the start, the internees were segregated by sex to keep even married couples from fraternizing with each other. But, despite the Japanese’s best efforts, babies continued to be born in the camps even after the first year of internment. In his 1946 book, Santo Tomas Interment Camp<\/em>, Frederic Stevens listed 75 “war babies” born inside that camp. Broken down by year, the number of births were:<\/p>\n