One woman driven by poverty to give up her child was Maria, a single mother who lost her job and was unemployed for more than a year. "Every night I cry alone at home, but what can I do? It hurt my heart, but I didn't have a choice," she says. She spent her days looking for work, sometimes well into the evening and that often meant leaving eight-year-old Anastasia alone for hours at a time. The tw
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