Its interesting this thread of about the refusal of blood transfusions in an african country. The number of women that die in child birth or shortly afterwards is still very high in African countries. The women at risk are even more vunerable if they are Jws. This has had little attention given to it in the media when dealing with Jws, but the facts show that the increase among the witnesses is in third world countries. This means that the women and babies are in a much higher risk group than normal, given their stand on blood.
With regards to the regecting of the little boy, I had a study with a nigerian woman in the 80's, she ran off with another man and left her child with her husband. The baby was his but he refused to have it, he gave it away for adoption, the shame of keeping his unfaithful wifes child was not to be born. I begged him to change his mind, and his other children cried and pleaded, but he sent the child away. I often wonder about that boy. So the story is believeqble to my ears.