I once heard an interview with a woman from a very poor part of the world. She was about twenty years old at the time of the interview and had already had three births. two of her children were living--but the four year old had to go to the local dump and spent his day there scrounging for things to eat and to occupy his time and the other "living" child was carefully tucked under the mothers bed each morning before she went to the factory to work in which she made very little money. The cloths she wore was an old school uniform that was practically in rags and she looked as though she had malnutrition. She would come home once during the day to breast feed her child but she had lost her milk recently and her infant was almost dead. In her country where she was located she could not get help from a clinic for herself or her children. This mother did not have a choice of how to survive with children. She did not have the resources that most people do and she had just accepted that her infant would die. She told the interviewer that she didn't want her children to die but accepted that she had no power to keep them alive.The mothers in this area believed hat their children would be born to them again at a later time. Many mothers in the same area just accepted that their children would die and that daily hand to mouth was the way people lived.
In south africa for a while their was a belief that if men with AIDES had intercourse with an infant girl that they would be cured. That is too sick!
