YES, TIMES CHANGE...

and so do the supposedly eternal laws of God, as I noted before. Until about 1400 AD, child abandonment was condoned by the Catholic Church. From John Boswell's Kindness of Strangers, pp. 172-73:

The institutional church, into whose hands such matters were increasingly entrusted, itself adopted an entirely realistic attitude toward abandonment. No councils or ecclesiastical authorities prohibited it or lent their support to ascetic condemnations of parents who exposed their children, although conciliar legislation of the period does condemn a wide range of other activities relating to sexuality and family life."' On the contrary, canons of the early church concern themselves solely with means to ensure that the children themselves are properly cared for. An African canon from the opening of the fifth century insisted that infants whose baptismal status could not be determined should be baptized, and explains that this is necessary because of the many babies "redeemed" from the barbarians.'" A council of 442 in Vaison (in southern Gaul) seeks to encourage the faithful to pick up expositi without fear of subsequent complications.

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This ruling, about one-fifth of the council's proceedings, does not attempt to prevent parents from abandoning children: they will suffer no penalty if they reclaim within ten days or do not reclaim at all. Its aim is, like that of Constantine's legislation a century earlier, to preserve the status quo, particularly as a means of encouraging people to pick up and rear abandoned children without fear of unpleasant consequences or of losing the child in whom they invest time and money. That abandonment was a substantial social problem is apparent; the edict was repeated, provision by provision, about a decade later at a council in Arles, in Provence."