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In the past, any girl who became pregnant without being married suffered the contempt of her neighbours and often of her own family.
Rural society was particularly hard on a young girl who had a child out of wedlock, a ''borte'' as they say in the Montaña de Navarra. This explains why there were many cases of newborns being abandoned even though it was condemned by the General Charter of Navarra. At the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> 19th century, there were still towns where a woman with a child out of wedlock was forced to go to church for a certain period of time to toll the bells at dawn to remind the neighbours of her shame<ref>Julio CARO BAROJA. ''Los Vascos. ''San Sebastián: 1949, pp. 321-322.</ref>.
The worst situation that the girl could face was to be turned out of her parents’ home.