Foundlings? In 2012? Yes, mothers still dump unwanted newborns in boxes and steal away. Foundling wheels were an artefact of medieval times; but they reappeared in 2000 in Hamburg, where a lot of abandoned babies were dying. Now Germany has around 200 places where a mother can either leave her baby-heated "baby hatches", usual ly with an alarm to summon a carer—or where she can give birth anonymously.
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