Prior to the past century, half of all human cultures didn't hold naming ceremonies immediately at birth. If an infant didn't survive, there were no public fune

Prior to the past century, half of all human cultures didn't hold naming ceremonies immediately at birth. If an infant didn't survive, there were no public funerals or mourning, and the deaths were not always recorded. Even more recently, the number of a woman's births wasn't recorded, and records of infants who died were frequently "unnamed" and listed without their sex. Names were not required to be ready to submit to a state registration system immediately following birth. In a world where survival beyond a few months was a required rite of acceptance to "earn" a name, that a child possibly not equipped to live on its own was cared for for six years is indeed a testament indeed to, perhaps, something inhuman.