This article from The Citizen discusses the situation of "unsafe abandonments" of infants in South Africa. "Newborn children are being dumped in bins, wrapped in plastic and thrown in the veld, into trash to be delivered to rubbish dumps and disposed of in myriad ways, in their thousands," says the article. And approximately one in two will survive. While estimates of the number of "safe abandonments" that occur can be found, the number of unsafe abandonments may never be known. However, the number appears to be on the rise, says the article.
