Tokyo's first baby hatch opens to prevent child abandonment and abuse


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Monday, 21 Apr 2025

Used for centuries globally, baby boxes or baby hatches are meant to prevent child abandonment or abuse. — AFP   

LAST month, a Tokyo hospital became the Japanese capital’s first medical institution to offer a system allowing the safe, anonymous drop-off of infants by parents unable to raise them.

Used for centuries globally, so-called baby boxes or baby hatches are meant to prevent child abandonment or abuse.

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