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October 8th, 2012 at 3:00 am » Comments (22)

A law has been passed in Korea that makes it harder to give up Korean babies for international adoption and this Korean pastor is saying it is leading to an increase in abandoned babies: A South Korean pastor who runs a “baby box” where mothers can leave unwanted infants has seen a sharp increase in the number of newborns being left there because, the pastor says, of a new law aimed at protecting the rights of children. South Korea is trying to shed a reputation of being a source of babies for
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March 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 am » Comments (8)

So says South Korean Health & Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee: Korea’s birthrate fell to 1.19 in 2007. This is less than half the global average. It is the lowest among the 30 members of the advanced economies’ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. South Korea’s Health-Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee campaigns for more babies with the slogan “Nothing is more patriotic than giving birth to a child.’’ The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs worries that the birthrate could even plunge below 1.0 this year as a result of the
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