What is a baby box ?
It is a place where a woman can leave her child when she wishes to abandon him/her. Baby boxes exist in Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovakia.
How does it work ?
A woman leaves the child in the box which is placed outside the hospital. Children can be left there up to one year in the great part of the countries previously quoted. When the child is put in this box, an alarm goes off and tells instantly the nurses in the hospital that there is a baby in the box, so that the child won't be abandoned outside alone.
Some say that it is a good principle,which is not my point, they argue that it could reduce the number of abortions, that it protects from children running wild, that it prevents infanticides and child-abuse. Well, why not, but I think that these boxes are just a regress, that it encourages the mom to give birth alone and to get rid of the baby like an object without questioning themselves. I think it makes "easier" the choice to abandon the baby as things will be done totally anonymously, the mother would not be seen as a bad person, or questioned about her action, as no one will know. The statistics reveal that the majority of the women who use these boxes are very young people, isolated and generally in situation of social marginalization.
And you ? What do you think about it ?
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