As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible
A woman has been charged with the attempted murder of her newborn son, whom police say she left for dead in a drain on Tuesday before he was found on Sunday by passersby. As crimes go, it’s horrific. Babies are fragile, dependent on the care of others for their every need. No matter how bad things get, we are still shocked when someone callously disregards a newborn’s safety.
There’s a temptation to dismiss this crime as a rarity. But crimes don’t happen in isolation. Australia routinely fails to provide critical psychiatric and prenatal care for new mothers. The fate of this newborn boy has a place within Australian society, with blame we must shoulder.
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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/15bN9BE
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