books.google.ca - InThe Kindness of Strangers, John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Using a wide variety of sources, including drama and mythological-literary texts as well as demographics, Boswell examines the evidence...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Kindness_of_Strangers.html?id=1n8AvQtdYzwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Kindness of Strangers
