This Is Sparta?
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Is Your Baby Dismantled?
If an infant had a bad reaction to the or got sick, that child would be discarded. And in this case, discarded means being thrown into a pit and left to die. We don't know the ratio of discarded infants to kept infants. It was likely relatively low, if only for practical reasons. You can't kill every baby that can't do ten push up straight out of the womb, you need a population. This was also a social practice that likely brought indescribable anguish to spartan mothers. Imagine having to hand your new born baby over to people you knew would it hours later just because it was born a little smaller or couldn't get over a cough.
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