What Defines Child Abandonment?
• Child abandonment is the practice of abandoning offspring outside of legal adoption. Causes include many social, and cultural factors as well as mental illness. The abandoned child is called a foundling or throwaway (as opposed to a runaway or an orphan). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abandonment Know What’s Happening; Hear Their Stories. • In a small detached bungalow on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City a teenage girl gently cries. Her name is Que. She is 17 and pregnant, but she cannot keep her baby… http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D55FFDED-6339-4E0A-9FCE-38A080426087.htm Statistics You Should Know. • In our world today, more than 60 million children and infants have been abandoned by their families and live on their own or in orphanages. http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/globalchristianity/mmrc/mmrc9818.htm • Many countries, like Russia and China, have an alarmingly high rate of physically abandoned children. A 1998 Human Rights Watch committee report found that mo
