South Korea's Baby Boxes: A Controversial Solution to a Social Issue.

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  @p4ngolin · 3 years ago

  The baby box does not facilitate abandonment.<br>The issue was that the alternative was babies being found abandonned in the street, on doorsteps, or worse in rubbish bins, where they died of exposure. The church itself had babies suffering illness from being left outside their door. <br>The baby box does not push mothers to abandon their child more easily, it makes sure the child survives.<br>In any case one of my classmates was a korean adoptee. Her adoptive parents enrolled her in the local Korean school where she learned the language, culture and they met immigrant parents. Eventually her file was unsealed and she met her mom In Busan. She was put for adoption because her family was too poor and starving. This was an attempt to save her life and her birth mom was very happy to see her well, and hoped she did not hate her for her choice (but had she not done this, she would likely not have survived and would have had a much harder life)

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  @cheetavontiebolt9971 · 3 years ago

  Putting baby in box is better then infantcide

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  @leechien6 · 3 years ago

  There is a Taiwanese saying: &quot;Putting your biological parents aside, the kindness of your adoptive parents is higher than the sky.&quot; No matter how difficult your birth parents were at that time, your adoptive parents are the ones who really care about you.

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  @p4ngolin · 3 years ago

  also korea is a rich nation but the vast majority of the money is not going back to the people. Every single household is in debt and the system favours the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. korea is rich but its people are poor

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  @firstname__lastname · 3 years ago

  There are baby boxes in the United States as well ❤

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  @misskatniss11 · 3 years ago

  Yet again...Mothers are blamed &nbsp;for the Fathers´ abandoning them.

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  @AnimeManhwa · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t really mind the baby box. If you only hear about how many abandoned (either aborted or purposely left to die) cases of babies here in the Philippines. You would see how hypocrite people are here...

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  @sar983 · 2 years ago

  MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BLESS YOU ❤

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  @annaolokede4582 · 3 years ago

  if you are not going to hold men accountable , you have no rights to talk about women.

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  @vickyoconnor7396 · 3 years ago

  This man is a saint. God give to health.

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  @windkraftanlagenkonglomera6209 · 3 years ago

  Funny how it is only talked about &quot;MOTHERS&quot; abandoning their children, totally ignoring the fact that the FATHERS play an equal role in this. Hello misogyny, hello patriarchy.

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  @chionun1028 · 3 years ago

  Korea is a wealthy country and &nbsp;still Sending children abroad for adopting. Something wrong about it.

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