Back in the Middle Ages a priest named Datedo disposed the institution of Italy's first orphanage for children born out of adultery to save them from abandone and death. In 1198 Pope Innocent III ordered the Santo Spirito hospital to install a wooden “Ruota” (Wheel) behind a wooden door into which women could anonymously slip new-born babies they were unable to keep, then ring a bell before they fled into the night. The last of this "Cradles of Love" was inaugurated at Abbiategrasso, Milan, on Christmas Eve 2009. Why are they still necessary?