Heartbreaking Pictures Show Chinese Parents Leaving Their Babies at "Baby Hatches"
The cultural preference for boys and healthy children in China is so prevalent that a baby "postbox" to save abandoned babies from infanticide has had to close because of overwhelming demand. News reports indicated as many as three babies a day were left at the "postbox" - most of them ill or having some sort of disability.
Now, one newspaper has posted heartbreaking pictures of parents who have been forced to abandon their newborn children at these so-called "baby hatches." Ref. Source 1