Recent advances in this topic, mainly yet not exclussively on Buddhist sources, were offered by Jonathan Silk, Vanessa Sasson and Amy Langenberg, with some titles freely available, e.g.

“Child Abandonment and Homes for Unwed Mothers in Ancient Indi“Child Abandonment and Homes for Unwed Mothers in Ancient India: Buddhist Sources”, JAOS 127 (2007), no. 3, pp. 297–314
http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/SILK/Silk_Child_Abandonment_JAOS_127.3.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/5669933/Scarecrows_Upasakas_Fetuses_and_Other_Child_Monastics_in_Middle-Period_Indian_Buddhism

https://www.academia.edu/4653493/Pregnant_Words_South_Asian_Buddhist_Tales_of_Fertility_and_Child_Protection_Author_s_Amy_Paris_Langenberg_Source_History_of_Religions

Eugen Ciurtin
Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest



2014/1/10 Viktoria Lysenko <vglyssenko@yandex.ru>
Dear colleagues,
A student of mine (not a Sanskritist) wants to write her magister thesis about the childhood of men and childhood of gods in comparative perspective. Could you suggest some special literature on the topic, or some papers on childhood in classical India?
With best regards,
Victoria

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Victoria Lysenko, dr.hab.philos.
Head, Department for Oriental philosophy studies
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Volkhonka, 14
Professor, Russian State University for Humanities
Russia