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The number of abandoned infant deaths has dropped more than
threefold since 2001, when Los Angeles County launched a campaign
encouraging mothers to surrender their unwanted newborns at hospitals
and fire stations, a report released today says. My daughter Alison, now in her twenties, was once
a malnourished, abandoned infant who had been orphaned by the Vietnam
War. By contrast, Kertzer documents that
both unmarried and married parents abandoned infants in appalling
numbers before systematic church intervention. |
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abandoned infant - a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown