According to the article, Ospedale degli Innocenti: A Social History by Alexandra Korey, the line, “The city responded to this terrible fact mainly because of the concern for the unbaptized souls of the children”, proves or shows are the one of the main goals of building the hospital was to help these needy and unwanted babies. They didn’t want these babies to be born as sinners and die as sinner. They wanted to cleanse these babies or do whatever they can to take care of them before anything happens. Most of the times even though they are ignored by these parents, at the end of the day, most mothers that abandoned their babies comes back to get their children as time goes on.
