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China’s ‘Baby Hatches’ Receive 1,400 Babies, Mostly Disabled The “baby hatch” in Chinese southern city of Guangzhou suspends its service that allowed parents to abandon infants safely and anonymously, at least temporarily, at the two-month operation due to the overflowed arrivals. [People’s Daily Online/Gao Zehua] China has so far set up 32 “Baby hatches”, or what is known in Chinese as “baby safety islands”, across the country and totally received 1400 unwanted offspring since the scheme was launched three years ago as the government’s alternative solution to infants abandoned in the streets. According to Beijing Evening News, most abandoned children suffer from serious illnesses or disabilities and unlike the “baby hatches” in foreign countries that the abandoned children are usually orphaned infants, those dumped in Chinese hatches mostly have parents and some are relatively elder. “Baby hatch” is a small booth usually set up at the gate of some child welfare center and equipped with incubator, air-conditioner, alarming device and children’s bed. The alarming device will go off several minutes after people enter the hatch and then the staff in welfare center check the hatch and look after the baby in the center or take the sick to the hospital for treatment. The hatches have a long history in the West that is closely tied to the Roman Catholic Church, which offered parents a place to leave their newborn babies to be raised by the church or in orphanages. China’s first “baby hatch” was built in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province in 2011, and since then, this short-time shelter for unwanted infants sparked controversy as many said that it possibly encouraged more parents to abandon their unwanted children. The first “Baby Hatch” in east China’s Shandong Province was put into use in Jinan Children Welfare Office on this year’s International Children’s Day and received over 100 abandoned infants within 11 days, far exceeding t