A mother is the first touch, the first voice and the first sight that a baby has when it is born. They rely on their mothers to provide them with a safe environment, food and comfort. Being a mother comes with great responsibilities and a lifelong job, the work of which becomes more and more difficult every day. Although I am not a mother myself, I have seen this work done by my own mother who gives her children a good life. Some mothers are not ready for this position, but still selfishly choose to keep their children because they are too proud to allow someone else to give their baby the life they deserve. Child abandonment is an ever-growing epidemic, not only in the United States, but around the world. Abandoning a child affects the mother, but more importantly, the abandoned child. In Sandra Maria Esteves' poem "GiveThanks", she lists all the "works" a mother does for her children and how special they are, something children abandoned by their mothers will never experience. A mother's abandonment has negative psychological effects. This is detrimental to the child's development because they grow up with an emptiness that cannot be replaced by just anyone and will never be able to experience the things that Sandra Maria Esteves talks about in her poem. In Sandra Maria Esteves' poem "GiveThanks" she says "Give thanks for the moms who never let you go / even when you belonged to someone else / but who adopted you as their own." It's about mothers who let their children go and who thank the mothers who welcome them as their own. However, the mother who adopts them can never replace the feeling of abandonment that the child feels. This child will always know that for whatever reason he was in the middle of paper and social issues. Sandra Maria Esteves spoke about what life would be like for these children if they had a mother, but now the door is open to what abandoned children experience on a daily basis. Sandra Maria Esteves spoke about the glorious life some children live in the care of a mother. She talked about the great things that would bond them and everything the mother would do for their children. However, 62.4% of children will never see this. Not because their vision is impaired, but their mothers decided to live a different life that would not include them. The mother's selfish act has permanent effects on her child that go beyond not knowing who the mother is. Sandra Maria Esteves revealed how great a mother is, but the world of these 62.4% children is a deep dark world with negative psychological effects..