What Was Life Like For Children In Ancient Athens?
AncientPages.com | July 4, 2018
Survival was very difficult for infants born in ancient Athens. The mortality rate was very high so babies were not given a name until they were between 7 – 10 days old. Fearing their child would die, parents delayed the formality of naming their child. An infant with any imperfection, was often killed or abandoned.
Unfortunately nearly any excuse passed as a reason to abandon a baby, especially for females. Sometimes abandoned infants were taken in and adopted by a wealthy family, but most of the time they became a slave of the adoptive family.
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