> It will be unusual that for children the unwanted ones suddenly are considered a good offering Seems like a win-win for me. The child is suddenly no longer u

> It will be unusual that for children the unwanted ones suddenly are considered a good offering Seems like a win-win for me. The child is suddenly no longer unwanted but your ‘most prized possession’. To be serious I’m not necessarily claiming that sacrifice was a direct alternative to infanticide just that there might have been some links and generally the fact that infanticide was quite widespread made sacrifice a bit more palatable.