AFTER A VISIT:
Ospedale degli Innocenti
Children that don’t have anyone to
care for him or her as a result of their parents’ abandonment are put in an
impossible situation. The fact that a mother and a father leave a child is
dependent on many external factors. Some do it in a responsible manner; giving
a child up for adoption, say for the reasoning that they simply feel unfit for
the job. However, others have been known to do abandon children in a selfless
ways, giving them up without questioning their well being.Walking into Ospedale degli Innocenti I felt that this was a
place used for its true meaning- a hospice for the innocent. Being a child are
you are in the most vulnerable point that you will ever be in your life.
Parenting a child can be the perfect test of how charitable you are. Although I
cannot speak from a personal point of view, parenting breaks one down to be
completely selfless. One can tell how completely charitable the women that
worked in this orphanage must have been. Although they where not the blood-
related mothers, the women that took care of these children most definitely
took on the role of being these children’s mother’s. Created solely to house the care of abandoned
children, this hospital was a home to hundreds of innocent helpless children
for over five centuries.
-Claire Shumaker
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