South Africa faces a crisis of infant abandonment. Among the many dreadful repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdown has seen a spate of unthinkable child abandonments – a toddler discarded in a dustbin; a six-week-old baby found at midnight in a hole next to a highway; a toddler left with a stranger in the queue outside a shop. 

Guest: Dr. Whitney Rosenberg – Childrens rights activist, child law expert and co-founder of Baby Saver

 Guest: Robyn Wolson Vorster – Adoption advocate and children’s rights activist

 

South Africa faces a crisis of infant abandonment. Among the many dreadful repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdown has seen a spate of unthinkable child abandonments &ndash; a toddler discarded in a dustbin; a six-week-old baby found at midnight in a hole next to a highway; a toddler left with a stranger in the queue outside a shop.&nbsp;
Guest: Dr. Whitney Rosenberg &ndash; Childrens rights activist, child law expert and co-founder of Baby Saver
&nbsp;Guest: Robyn Wolson Vorster &ndash; Adoption advocate and children&rsquo;s rights activist
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