The tokens

This article was upsetting. It is unfortunate that mothers want to get rid of their children so easily. Yes, I understand that if you wanted to give your baby a better life then you would lend it up for adoption, but the London Foundling Hospital is not a place I would give my unwanted child to. Even though to most mothers who didn't want their child would think this would be a great place for their babies, I think otherwise. The admissions to the hospital "never exceeded two hundred." Even with the amount of babies being accepted, many were dying in the hospital. I think its interesting that the mothers would attach "tokens" to their babies to identify that it was once theirs. What I didn't like about the tokens was that the hospital was trying to attract donors by putting them on display. These tokens were the only objects that these children had from their biological mother. For the hospital to display them to get money, just makes me sick.