We often hear the words child abandonment and think of those who are left at the fire station or hospital, parents who fail to pay child support, parents who are using substances and too involved with the drugs to attend to their child or even those parents who just take off.  Those are often the most noticeable and sad examples of child abandonment; often they may even make the evening news.

You find yourself surrounded by a throng in a shopping mall, amongst many movie goers, enjoying amazing music at a concert, listening to a lecture at school or just walking down the street of your local downtown.  Amidst all those possibly interesting, unique individuals, you experience the existential aloneness that we all feel at one point or another in our lives.