Infant exposure

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In ancient times, exposition (from the Latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, starvation, animal attack^[1][2] or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce children.

Following exposure, the infants commonly died or were taken by slavers.^{[citation needed]}