Sounding the death knell for adoption?
Update on the drafting of a policy on child care and protection
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Child Abandonment and Illegal Abortions on the Increase
Government, child protection organisations and civil society need to find common ground to address humanitarian crisis facing SA’s vulnerable children and mothers!
Gone without a trace: The shocking fate of South Africa’s abandoned children
Stereotypical pictures of illegal abortion practices are of doctors with bloodied aprons and carving knives, but modern “clinics” are usually run by criminals. Women are instructed to take drugs (orally or vaginally) and are sometimes told that the baby “will dissolve” or be “flushed away”. By ROBYN WOLFSON VORSTER
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Swapped babies to remain with families raising them
Gauteng’s abandoned babies: A growing social crisis
Children’s Amendment Bills: Ubuntu and the ongoing child protection debate
The public hearings held by the government portfolio committee tasked with assessing the Children’s Amendment Bills were a stark reminder that many sectors of government still believe that ubuntu is the panacea for all of our orphans’ ills. In the context of child protection, ubuntu is epitomised by community-based care and the principle that no child is left behind. But ubuntu alone is not the solution.
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