One of the reasons this incident was thought to have occurred was as the result of an increase in the number of unwanted infants born in Japan.

The open loggia served to shelter lost children and unwanted infants who were abandoned to the care of the brotherhood, the "Company of Mercy".

Duke Mitty, an avuncular toad usually drunk and giggling, had begun as a salesman of tapeworm cures, but later turned to the disposal of unwanted infants to sausage factories.

Sadhvi Rithambara also runs ashrams for unwanted infants, ladies and widows in Indore, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.

It was assumed to be the exact counterpart of the ancient Greek custom of exposing unwanted infants, to keep the population at acceptable levels.

New York is one of 47 states that allow parents to anonymously leave unwanted infants at sites like hospitals or firehouses without fear of prosecution under so-called safe-haven laws.

"Who do they think they are that they come to me by night and demand that I tender to them those infants unwanted by anyone?"

He would say what passes for a prayer for the unwanted infants left to perish in the churchyard or on the docks, under bridges and in ditches.

Maria ties up the contents in parcels, and (I believe) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants.

Therefore, Wi adjourned the discussion of the next rule of his new code, that which dealt with the exposure of unwanted female infants, till the morrow, and the tribal conference broke up.