Furthermore, it is believed that child abandonment at that time did not necessarily (or merely) constitute a means for controlling fertility, but rather represented a means for collective reaction to certain pressures aggressively promoted by a very harsh dictatorial political regime.
The imposition of the pro-natalist policy brought with it increasing repressive measures against doctors because of infant deaths, with excessive (and exclusive) blame being heaped on the medical sector, in lieu of attributing the responsibility of such casualties to parents.