Babies being abandoned in South Africa due to rising costs...

Welfare workers are concerned about the alarming increase in the number of babies being abandoned and they are blaming rapidly escalating living costs, especially rocketing food prices, for the dramatic increase. 

According to a report by Sky News, the number of abandoned babies in South Africa has risen by a third this year.

Cheryl Pratley, head of Shepherd's Keep, a home for abandoned babies in Durban, said they had "definitely" noticed an increase in the number of abandoned babies because it becomes harder for mothers to look after them. 

She said babies were often "dumped" in toilets, bushes or at the beach. In addition, babies were increasingly being found without clothes or baby formula. They had found babies wrapped in nothing but an old blanket or towel, and the babies were frightened and hungry, desperately tired, "just wanting loving arms and a bottle of warm milk". More...

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