02 Feb, 2018
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This is a great news that Korea may finally be adopting a law to protect unwed mothers the rights to choose to give births and stay anonymous, as the current law does not allow. The current law requires unwed mothers to register their babies in order to give them up for adoption. This caused thousands of babies being abandoned in the Baby Box, and many instances of abandoning them in the streets, trash bins, abandoned buildings, and many have been killed. All this because the unwed mothers did not want to have the birth history recorded in their family registry. This law, thanks to pastor JongRak Lee, who has championed for years for this to happen, will bring a great relief to unwed mothers that wish to stay anonymous. And this will reduce the number of babies coming to the Baby Box as the babies will be redirected to the adoption agencies for adoptions, hopefully. But despite this many will continue to be admitted to institutions if they are not adopted.
The Korean War Baby is very pleased about this development as it recognizes the situation of the reality in present day Rep. of Korea (The South Korean democracy not the commie bastards of North Korea). Adoption is NOT the best, but the realities of life bring about hard choices for mothers. In a perfect world, there would be no need, but pregnancy happens and at least a few women DAILY chose to NOT TERMINATE UNWANTED pregnancies. Daily about 4,000 plus Korean women chose to have abortions but around 25 children are born to Unwed Mothers. Good news, more of them are able to keep and try to raise their babies...but WOMEN should also have the Choice to Stay UNKNOWN...Hopefully, later they will make contact or leave a message for their child. We cannot "force them" to do such things or we will continue to have abandoned newborn infants left in dangerous circumstances.