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This was the case even with the presence of foundling hospitals, where women could safely abandon babies.

Eighteenth-century parents adopted Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about “natural” parenting—cold air is good for a child!—even though he’d left all five of his children at a foundling hospital.

In this case, our heroine was a feisty little girl, and the place she longed to escape was a foundling hospital in Victorian England.

He rented babies from foundling hospitals for photo shoots and personal appearances, and the crowds went crazy.

She is sent off to the foundling hospital, where she is scolded harshly by fierce matrons and mocked for her bright red hair.