Trash Bin Babies: India's Female Infanticide Crisis - Atlantic Online
25 May 2012, 8:55 am
Since the 18th century, variations of the baby hatch concept have existed in much of central Europe, where they have sometimes been called "foundling wheels". Many American states now have "safe haven" laws, designated safe drop-off locations where parents ...

After Z: forgotten foundlings - BBC News
24 May 2012, 8:27 am
Do get in touch. For once it might well have been easier to find Ioma's great-grandmother if she had been born in London as she may well have been one of the 27,000 children who passed through the doors of the foundling Hospital between 1739 and 1954.

Blouwes Tribal Leader Buried Amid Leadership Controversy - Worldnews.com
21 May 2012, 10:04 am
Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and the child was adopted as a foundling by the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian ...

Tanzania: How Arusha Spearheaded Local's Women and Girls in ICT - AllAfrica.com
21 May 2012, 4:49 am
Marie and husband Stan were retiring soon and so were kind enough to donate their phone line to the foundling node so that it could call the Nairobi Node twice each day and from that arrangement, Arusha managed to go online earlier that all other Cities in ...

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens & foundling Museum - About - News & Issues (blog)
21 May 2012, 1:36 am
The foundling Museum's latest exhibition - The Triumph of Pleasure: Vauxhall Gardens 1729-1786 - may initially seem an unusual choice for a museum dedicated to London's first home for abandoned children but the artist William Hogarth connects ...

Movie of the week: Wuthering Heights - Mail & Guardian Online
18 May 2012, 12:20 am
Played as a youth by Solomon Glave, Heathcliff is a homeless foundling, discovered on the streets of Liverpool by the taciturn Mr Earnshaw (Paul Hilton). In the distinctly accusatory spirit of Christian charity, Mr Earnshaw brings Heathcliff back to live ...

101 books Gen Ys must read before they die - MercatorNet
15 May 2012, 9:42 am
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (1861) A keen psychological portrait of a recluse who discovers love when he adopts a foundling girl. Short Stories, by Henry Lawson (1896) Australia's first world-class writer, Lawson chronicled the ...

The tax cap is in danger of deterring innovative philanthropists - The Guardian
14 May 2012, 8:39 am
A brief look at history provides a clue. In 1739, Thomas Coram, a wealthy merchant, was moved by the plight of London's abandoned children and established the foundling hospital in Bloomsbury. This innovation in social welfare eventually led the ...

Abandoned as a baby, new mom gets a priceless gift - Ogden Standard-Examiner
13 May 2012, 8:19 am
Labeled a "foundling," I was taken to an orphanage and given a birth date and a name -- Dong Hee Ahn. It was 1978. After a year and a half, I was transferred to a foster home in Seoul, where a social worker noted: "Her all action development ...

Crone travels sodden streets of future in the not yet - theadvocate.com
12 May 2012, 11:08 pm
It is on one of these islands that Malcolm De Lazarus was reared, a foundling taken in by a benefactor who is an “Heir” — a being who has benefited from long-ago advances in medicine, genetics and technology to become virtually immortal. Malcolm ...