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No condition of indigence or poverty justifies the abandonment of a child. As far as my own experience is concerned, I am sure that a child would rather die of starvation or know that his parents are in prison than learn that they did not abandon him. If genocide is a crime against humanity, the abandonment of a child is much more, calling into question the first ethical principle for our survival: a mother should not abandon her child. Animals do not do that, or do so only if the little ones are naturally self-sufficient by birth. It is an everlasting torture and I am sure that my son is wondering – in his own confusion – why he did not get in life what so many others were granted.
