Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Now on to the actual issue, why are young children denied the milk of their mother which is the best nutrition they can possibly get?
Unless their mother happens to be Japanese, or Innuit or from Spitsbergen or on drugs and similar... (in which case the milk is actually mildly to severely toxic due to pollution accumulating in the mother.

More in general what if the choice is between being given up for adoption and being abandoned outright, which was the typical course of action before?