An incredibly arrogant and ignorant article.
The value of children isn’t a societal based norm, but those who seek to control society now appear to attack the family.
Obviously the author doesn’t have any close relationships with women, nor with any woman who has experienced childbirth.
Even the causal tie to Christianity fails to acknowledge several millennia of Judaism which also values the child.
Why are there so many Italians named Esposito and Abbandonato? Because a very few of those orphans survived.
England and France and Germany had “angel makers” - women who took in babies whose mothers could not care for them, and then did not care for them.
The rural French sent babies by the wagon load to orphanages in Paris.
When Christian societies were poor, Christianity condemned fornication, which might have stopped the conception of some unwanted children, but did nothing for those conceived in marriage, and funded some foundling hospitals and orphanages, where the chance of survival was perhaps better than in an alley or on a hillside.
What created childhood was wealth.
BTW, a ancient Greek writer noted that the Jews were the only people who did not expose their children. I wish I could give the citation - I cannot find my book on orphans and abandonment.
Which brings us to the unforgivable lack of citations in this article.