50 Subscribers: Riddle 2

Here’s the second riddle in my celebration series after reaching 50 subscribers. What is the answer to this riddle? Have a guess down below.

My father and mother abandoned me in this world, while I was dead. There was as yet no life, no being in me.

Then a very kindly wife covered me with her clothes. Kept me, cherished me and canopied me with a protective covering, as fittingly for her own child.

I became to my unrelated kindred a kin of spirit. This beautiful wife continued to feed me, until I grew mature and could set my paths further afield.

She had fewer beloved sons and daughters because she did so.