Abandonment or adoption: Pandemic forces mothers to make life-changing decisions

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The socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on South Africans continues to be felt, with many families having to make extraordinary sacrifices. One of these is mothers who've had to give up their babies for adoption in order to alleviate the burden of poverty.

JOHANNESBURG - The socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on South Africans continues to be felt, with many families having to make extraordinary sacrifices.

Eyewitness News spoke to a mother who was on the verge of giving up her child in a desperate bid to survive.The six-month-old baby girl presses her face against her mother's while she kisses her softly on her cheek. The mother came to Gauteng from the Eastern Cape last month, leaving her other child, a 10-year-old son, with a neighbour after she lost her job.

"To me, as a mother, it's so painful just to watch that happening. You go to bed with that pain thinking of them. What can I do to help them?" The National Adoption Coalition said that many mothers had been forced to make life-changing decisions due to financial stress brought on by COVID-19. Many were dropped off in baby boxes - these are specially designed for mothers to leave their children so that the NGO can take them in.

 

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