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The founders and staff of Beschermde Wieg insist that their rooms offer a caring alternative to the more controversial baby windows – also known as baby hatches, life windows or safe haven boxes – where a person simply deposits a baby in a secure vault, often in the wall of a public building, and walks away.
‘Pregnant, homeless, what now?’ The search for a safe place to abandon a baby Laura Spinney 2025
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