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Baby hatch

Baby hatches are basically hatches in a wall, insulated and hooked up with some kind of alarm system, into which women can deposit their children as a last resort if they can’t or won’t take care of them. The idea is hundreds of years old, but reincarated in Hamburg, Germany, in 2000, after five babies were found abandoned in a short time span, three of them dead. If you understand German, you can read more here and here. In Germany, children deposited at these “babyklappe” will be returned to the mother without legal repercussions if she contacts them within eight weeks (they’re also advertised in newspapers), and they generally try to find the mother and help her. Similar hatches exist in Italy, Japan and other places around the world.