I shall appreciate references/cases (in the past? in the present?)of
widowed fathers who remarried and couldn't/wouldn't  burden their new
brides with  children from his former marriage.  Instead,  they placed
them with relatives or orphanages for an indeterminable time. This was
considered normal practice since people assumed fathers should "get on
with their lives".  I found six  such biographical items
within my perfectly normal circle,  and would like to learn of
references, scholarly and literary, in order to write about it. Thank
you.