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Children in 1600’s By. Alex Ignasiak, Sam Ponteri
Child Care and Nursing • Women married late and had a lot of kids • High mortality rates for kids and mothers • Nursing • Rural • Urban • Nobles • Enlightenment thinkers against Wet Nursing
Foundlings and Infanticide • Rural Infanticide was high • Urban Alternatives • Where were the foundlings coming from? • Orphanages called Legal Infanticide