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