Desperate parents now overwhelming China’s ‘baby hatches’
Desperate Chinese families who cannot afford to care for their baby, can drop them off in a ‘baby hatch’ so they can be cared for by the government.
But why are they doing it? ITV News China correspondent Lucy Watson reports:
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-10/de…
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