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openTo abandon a family member at the hospital Literature
Parental Abandonment says the inverse is The Runaway, but I'm not sure that (or Abandon the Disabled) applies for this.
I'm making a work page for a book of medical anecdotes (to be launched at Another One Case).
One story has the adult children of an elderly man sign the consent form for amputating his injured leg, his second one after 10 years. It isn’t revealed until the end, but before his first leg got amputated, he retaliated against being sent to the hospital and kicked his wife, who then died from internal bleeding. The old man realises that his children aren’t coming back for him, and indeed they don’t. They went through the effort of changing their address and numbers to be untraceable, and the old man dies alone.
Edited by FaithfulMacabreopenRelatives recognize each other at first meeting Literature
Mother and baby are separated at birth. The baby, now an adult, and the mother end up in the same room at the same time, completely by Contrived Coincidence, and recognize each other.
openMarry from a group which prevents religious complications Literature
A never-married Jewish woman had a relationship from which a baby was born. It's critical that this fact stay hidden from her community; however, once she marries (this is absolutely expected of her) and starts having children (also expected), there would be religious complications if the "first born" is a son due to the requirement of Pidyon HaBen (religious redemption the first born son). She marries a Levi (a man whose family tradition is that he is a patrilinial descent of Jacob's third son, Levi) because a Levi's son is exempt from Pidyon HaBen, thereby getting around the religious complication.
Edited by Someone1981

A pregnant woman and her husband adopt a child, in order that the child be a big sibling for their unborn child.