South Africa does not provide safe alternatives for desperate mothers. Babies are abandoned in places such as open fields, dustbins and pit latrines.
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English and Welsh governments are consulting the public about whether they should revoke temporary abortion rules.
A court has ruled that pre-existing mental health problems can be taken into account.
The killing of a newborn baby by its mother is the most shocking of crimes - but more needs to be done to understand the mental condition of the women that do it.
Stories of child abandonment in fiction have remarkable parallels to the real life experiences.
The high rate of child homicides in South Africa shows that reproductive, mental health and social services are failing to help vulnerable mothers.
It is a cruel world out there, particularly for young animals born into social groups where infanticide occurs. This dark side of evolution is revealed when adults – often males – kill offspring to promote…
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Zoology, University of Cambridge
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Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Deputy director of the Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Lecturer of Law, University of Essex
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Lecturer, Law of Persons and Family, University of Johannesburg
