Lina Basquette recalled clashing with director Lois Weber during the making of this film and noted that her own troubled family life probably contributed to both the discordance on set and to her own lackluster acting. In her 1990 autobiography, she wrote: "I contributed a wooden, awkward, awful performance. I hated Lois Weber. She was female and looked a lot like Mama. No matter how hard she tried, Madam Weber couldn't drag a good scene out of me. "
Lina Basquette's father, Frank Baskette, committed suicide at age 36 during the making of this film. Lina was given one day off to attend his funeral.
A Bluebird Production. Universal, lacking its own theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system to market its features to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases), and Jewel (prestige pictures made to command higher roadshow ticket prices). The studio discontinued this marketing method in late 1929.
A deteriorated copy of the film was discovered at EYE Film Instituut Nederland in 2008.
According to the American Film Institute, the following title cards precede the film: "This film has been endorsed by the National Council of Public Morals as a follow-up to the highly acclaimed film 'Where Are My Children?'"; "If only mothers had the courage to speak directly to their daughters, this would never happen." This introduction was not seen in Milestone restoration telecast by Turner Classic Movies 17 May 2020.