Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Russia
plans to ban 'baby boxes' for unwanted infants
Baby
boxes in Russia. Just 20 boxes in the world largest country have saved 50
unwanted babies for the last five years. Those are the boxes that mothers,
fathers or anyone, can leave unwanted babies safely without leaving their
identities. The practice of placing such rescue boxes isn’t limited in Russia.
There are numbers of countries that have such boxes or facilities including the
US, Japan and China. This practice is highly disputed as to whether it
encourages more mothers to abandon their babies or saves more babies from being
dumped in the woods or toilets to die. In fact, such baby-saving installment
isn’t new. Churches and temples were a common place for desperate mothers to
leave their unwanted babies. Today, there are stages to avoid accepting or
making babies, birth control, contraception, abortion and baby-box that are all
highly controversial.
Enjoy
reading and thinking what is behind the 50 babies that have been saved in five
years. It is too many or few?
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