What is Clara Hale?
{{Infobox person | name = Clara McBride Hale | image = Clara Hale.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Clara McBride | birth_date = April 1, 1905 | birth_place = [[Elizabeth City, North Carolina]] | death_date = December 18, 1992 (aged 87) | death_place = New York City, USA | occupation = Humanitarian | spouse = | parents = | children = Nathan Hale<br>Lorraine Hale<br>Kenneth Hale }} '''Clara McBride Hale''' (April 1, 1905 &ndash; December 18, 1992), also known as '''Mother Hale''', was an [[Americans|American]] [[humanitarian]]. She founded the [[Hale House Center]], a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. ==Personal life== Hale was born April 1, 1905 in [[Elizabeth City, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hale-clara-mcbride-1905-1992/|title=Clara McBride Hale (1905-1992) • BlackPast|date=1 February 2009|publisher=}}</ref> She moved to Philadelphia her father died when she was a toddler. Her mother could not pay for her and her siblings, her mother took in lodgers to pay for her family. Clara Hale's mother died when she was sixteen. She met Thomas Hale in high school and when they graduated they went to New York together and started a floor waxing company. Thomas and Clara Hale had two children named Lorraine and a son Nathan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/19/us/clara-hale-founder-of-home-for-addicts-babies-dies-at-87.html|title=Clara Hale, Founder of Home For Addicts' Babies, Dies at 87|first=Bruce|last=Lambert|date=19 December 1992|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> Clara Hale adopted a boy named Kenneth the time Thomas Hale was going through cancer and died at the age of twenty seven. When a drug addicted mom was at her door step she asked if Hale would take her drug addicted baby.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.yourdictionary.com/clara-hale|title=Clara Hale Facts|website=biography.yourdictionary.com}}</ref> Hale took in the baby and the Hale hou