Two thousand years ago the Church came into a world that practiced child abandonment, and they did something about it. If not for the human worth that Christianity brought into this world I would suggest that there would be 10% of the families in this room wouldn't be here today. But from what I can see, there is still a form of child abandonment practiced today, especially in the cities of this country.

Jonathan Kozol worked with children in the South Bronx, among those he described as "the poorest of the poor." He wrote that these children we…