The causes of child abandonment can be poverty or mental illness.

I have to laugh at your assumption that child abandonment (in the financial and taking responsibility sense) cannot happen within a marriage.

"We do not want to codify a policy of national child abandonment," she wrote.

Further support is gleaned from accounts of child abandonment in historical times.

Poverty is often a root cause of child abandonment.

This may reflect the widespread practice of child abandonment in their cultures.

In August 1988, the mother was indicted for child abandonment.

The neighborhood also has the city's highest incidence of child abandonment.

Police reports on child abandonments are often difficult to verify.

He is also charged with evidence tampering and child abandonment.