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Download or read book Abandoned written by Julie Miller and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating problem that wracked New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity to recognition of their plight as a sign of urban moral decline in need of systematic intervention."--Back cover.