Monday, October 29, 2007

the return of baby hatches



"it’s an unfortunate fact of life that all over the world newborn babies are abandoned on a daily basis, in bins, on doorsteps, in bushes. just searching for ‘abandoned baby’ on the google news search brought up these results and that’s just a selection of the cases that are actually reported.
centuries ago a device called a foundling wheel could be spotted in many countries around the world, mainly outside churches and hospitals, the objective being a safe haven for these unwanted newborns coupled with anonymity for the parent."

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