The “Unwanted” Baby Girls of Rome

The Kingdom Perspective · May 4, 2023 · 1m

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Hello! This is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective!

Many are shocked to learn that infanticide, the killing of unwanted children, was considered perfectly acceptable in the ancient world. The most common means of carrying this out was the practice of “exposure”, leaving a child exposed to the elements, usually on the city dump, until they died. Since male children were considered more valuable than female, infant girls were usually the target of this practice. Generally, after a family had given birth to one girl, any further female offspring…