Infant exposure
Practice of abandoning unwanted infants to exposure in the wilderness / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In ancient times, exposition (from the latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, hunger, animal attack[1][2] or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce children.
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