Yurt thanks for that and sorry as well.
Sorry I am not some exotic Gordon Brown or someone similar in disguise.
I think maybe you are getting caught up the in the semantics there 2 shoes.
The point I was making is that in the normal run of things to abandon a baby would also mean being a touch reckless about their safety.
Let me give an example, many years ago a friend of mine was born. Tragically very soon after birth he contracted meningitis which left him with little speach, possibly blind, very severe Cerebral Palsy and a fair bit else besides.
His mother, now there was a can do person if ever I met one, struggled without any help at all. And a struggle it was too, eventually, as time went on, she arrived at the situation where she could cope no more.
It matters not really how old he was by then or she was, she got to the end of what she could do, that to me is the important bit.
All that was on offer at the time was warehousing, in the local long term mental handicap hospital and I would not grace that ward with any better name than a bloody warehouse. And no that was not the staff's fault, they did the best they could but given the workload and staffing level it was little better than "feed and water the vegetables".
Please get annoyed and offended at that phrase, I meant to convey what the place was like, it made me burning up angry at the time to see human beings treated in such a fashion.
Now, she got so distressed at seeing him there and the conditions there that she could not visit, she found it too traumatic.
So she abandoned him to his fate.
Presumably you would want to condemn her and say she was wrong.
I hope you would not.
The point I am trying to make is that things are often presented to us, especially by the media in very simplified forms of black and white.
The real world is rarely black or white, there is usually some shade of grey.