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Perspectives\n\nMichaelH.Burnstein,MDChildren's Psychiatric Hospital,Ann Arbor  \nABSTRACT:Even though the act of physical child abandonment is a relatively com-mon occurrence,it remains an understudied social phenomena.It has been an act ofparents since earliest times,but even in our modern enlightened society,children arestill ejected from their homes and physically abandoned in frightening numbers.Eventhough attention has been directed toward the understanding and combating of thenumerous variations of child abuse and neglect,the problem of physical abandonmentis rarely discussed until sensationalistic news reports emerge to remind us that childrenare stillleft in parks or on street corners.To further understand this phenomena ofchild abandonment,this paper reviews the literature and examines the process fromhistorical,sociological and psychological perspectives.This report looks to stimulatefurther interest in physical child abandonment and its precursor,psychological child re-jection,as forms of child abuse and neglect which can and should be combated by pro-per psychiatric intervention.  \nThis paper will center on the act of physical child abandonment,such as,the act of leaving a child in a park or in front of a hospital,with no intention of returning for that child.In this sense,we willdiscuss physical child abandonment as if the child was property whichwas abandoned by its owner.  \nPsychologically speaking,there are both conscious and unconsciousmotivations for physical child abandonment which must be addressedin order to understand what has led to the final act of physical aban-donment.Therefore in studying the physical act of abandonment,wewill look at the rejecting and/or ambivalent parent(s)from apsychological perspective.As will be discussed,interventions withhigh risk potentially child-abandoning parents,may prevent the finalact and its impact on the child,the parents and society.We will beginby looking at the historical patterns of child abandonment.  \n## Historical Patterns of Child Abandonment\n\nOne need look no further than to familiar descriptions of ancientcivilizations to see the early prevalence of child abandonment.Motiva-tions differ,but the act has been present since the time of earliest man.For example,Moses was left by his mother in a conscious effort to savehis life.In this example,there was abandonment,but for the safety ofthe child.Most physical abandonments are acts to rid oneself of aburden,such as seen in Oedipus,described by Sophocleas,as the firstborn son of parents who gave him up to a shepherd,instructing theshepherd to let the infant die of exposure on a mountain.The sequellaof this abandonment has been imprinted in the minds of mental healthprofessionals in virtually every western society.But not until manycenturies later is the first psychological treatment (1801)of an aban-doned child recorded by the noted French otologist,Jean-Marie Itard.Itard took great effort to treat and raise a found child who hadpreviously raised himself among animals in the forest near Aveyron,France [1].  \nChild abandonment is historically first mentioned in relation to pro-viding basic care for parentless children.A survey of the literaturereveals the emergence of first residential home for such children in thefourth century,in Europe.In the fifth century,a similar center wasorganized by the Christian Church in Arles,France,to care for and toprotect what were then referred to as \"exposed infants\"[2].In thetwelfth century,there are reports from Montpellier,France,whereI'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St.Esprit was opened,specifically to carefor abandoned infants.Beginning with the Poor Law of 1601 inEngland,which legislated minimal care for the poor,includingchildren,society had taken an increasing,although still incomplete,in-terest in children.Gradually,the church of Louis XIV,influencedEuropean society to form a number of hospitals for the 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