Spread of 'baby boxes' in Europe alarms United Nations

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A baby bank in Hamburg, Germany: over 400 children have been abandoned in hatches in Europe since 2000. Photograph: Nina Ruecker/Getty Images


UN says hatches in which unwanted newborn babies can be left contravene children's rights to know and be cared for by parents

The United Nations is increasingly concerned at the spread in Europe of "baby boxes" where infants can be secretly abandoned by parents, warning that the practice "contravenes the right of the child to be known and cared for by his or her parents", the Guardian has learned.

The committee, a group of 18 international human rights experts based in Geneva, says that while "foundling wheels" and baby hatches had disappeared from Europe in the last century, almost 200 have been installed across the continent in the past decade in nations as diverse as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic and Latvia. Since 2000, more than 400 children have been abandoned in the hatches, with faith groups and right-wing politicians spearheading the revival in the controversial practice


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[Grizz]

the UN makes me gawk. not knowing your parents is better than hypothermia.................

[Canker_Canison]

They have a right to know & be raised by their parents?

Then why do adoption agencies stop parents from contacting their kids?

It don't make any sense. The kid has a right to know, but the parents are banned from contact.


If my mother was a crack whore (I've checked, she isn't) I would rather be dumped in a box than share a needle.

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If my mother was a crack whore (I've checked, she isn't) I would rather be dumped in a box than share a needle.

BUT, what if your mother was a crack whore, that donates VAST wads of cash to DK then what?

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Now that?s a good question Meat, I wonder he dares reply?..

[scouse58]

I'll bet his mum won't

[Canker_Canison]

BUT, what if your mother was a crack whore, that donates VAST wads of cash to DK then what?

I would be the next news headline if my mother started using DK. The amount of times I slag off my thick retarded family for not knowing the most basic of IT skills, I'd be a dead man.

But the blood work came back clean, so she's not a crack whore... Can't be so certain about others, but my mothers clean

[Meat-Head]

The amount of times I slag off my thick retarded family for not knowing the most basic of IT skills, I'd be a dead man.

Well if it helps i have lots of thick friends.

Sadly my sim card lost it's number the other week.

Otherwise would still had in my list of contacts

Thick Dave 07xxxxx
Thick Tim 07xxxxx
Thick Shane 07xxxxx
Thick Lia-DUMB 07xxxxx