except in the singular case of infant exposure. No evidence suggests that Jews participated in this common gentile practice. Second-century AD Roman monument of a girl with what looks to be a doll in the upper left edge (Photo courtesy of Mary Harrsch/flickr.com) In general, a work that is proscriptive and literary tends to be more negative about daughters, while funerary inscriptions and letters, written with a particular daughter in mind, generally are more positive about the girl and about daughters