Back تعرض الرضع Arabic Exposición (niño) Spanish رها کردن نوزاد Persian Exposition (ethnologie) French Ius exponendi Italian
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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.
- ^ Justin Martyr, First Apology.
- ^ Boswell, John Eastburn (1984). "Exposition and oblation: the abandonment of children and the ancient and medieval family". American Historical Review. 89 (1): 10–33. doi:10.2307/1855916. JSTOR 1855916. PMID 11611460.
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