VIDEO: Some South African mothers-to-be deliberately drinking to harm babies
Mothers in one of South Africa’s poorest areas are drinking heavily to deliberately damage their unborn babies - just so they can claim disability benefit.
Life is so tough with unemployment high and crime rampant in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, that a newborn baby represents a form of income for the mothers.
State benefits mean 250 South African rand (£20) per child per month for an impoverished family. But disability allowance is a far more lucrative 1200 rand a month (£85). Click below for full story -
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Do not call people like this mothers - a mother would never intentionally harm her baby
It doesn’t matter how broke you are, there is no excuse or justification for this!
Surely the WHO and Unicef will have to do something about this?
One of the most disturbing articles I have ever read.
Its so sad that people are so hard up and desperate that they would harm their own babies like this