Caring for sick babies: The dilemma facing China's poor
At the start of the year, a safe baby hatch was opened in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, giving parents a place to anonymously abandon children they could not care for.
But the government had to close the site after it was overwhelmed with 262 children - five babies a day - all of them facing serious health problems.
Celia Hatton travelled to Guangzhou to learn why parents feel abandoning their children is their only option.
19 May 2014
- From the section China