I had considered that someone might respond that way, and still believe what I said is true enough to be worth saying.
I understand that your response above is partly this same “Yes, I’d thought of that” message.
(Updated because my comment above is currently at −1: I don’t think the tendency not to abandon one’s children unless forced to is uniquely “modern”, although of course the modern world sharply limits the number of situations in which the choices are abandoning a child or risking death.)
I had considered that someone might respond that way, and still believe what I said is true enough to be worth saying.
I understand that your response above is partly this same “Yes, I’d thought of that” message.
(Updated because my comment above is currently at −1: I don’t think the tendency not to abandon one’s children unless forced to is uniquely “modern”, although of course the modern world sharply limits the number of situations in which the choices are abandoning a child or risking death.)