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  2. Safe Haven Baby Boxes - Wikipedia

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    Safe Haven Baby Boxes (SHBB) is a non-profit organization that provides a safe and legal alternative to abandoning newborn babies. This organization, founded by Monica Kelsey in 2015, installs specialized baby boxes at designated secure locations where parents can safely surrender their newborns, ensuring their well-being and reducing the risk of harm or abandonment.

  3. Baby hatch - Wikipedia

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    Baby hatch in Poland. The label OKNO ŻYCIA means 'Window of Life'. A baby hatch or baby box[1] is a place where people (typically mothers) can leave babies, usually newborn, anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for. This was common from the Middle Ages to the 18th and 19th centuries, when the device was known as a foundling wheel.

  4. Safe-haven law - Wikipedia

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    Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as " Baby Moses laws ", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state. All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico ...

  5. Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum - Wikipedia

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    87001742 [1] Added to NRHP. September 25, 1987. Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum was built as a Catholic institution for unwanted infants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first section of the building was constructed in 1878 in High Victorian Gothic style, with similar additions following. Ever since, the building has housed various social service ...

  6. Category:Orphanages in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Washington City Orphan Asylum. Categories: Orphanages by country. Residential buildings in the United States. Child welfare in the United States. Child-related organizations in the United States. Orphanages in North America. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.

  7. Child abandonment - Wikipedia

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    Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring in an illegal way, with the intent of never resuming or reasserting guardianship. [1] The phrase is typically used to describe the physical abandonment of a child. Still, it can also include severe cases of neglect and emotional abandonment, such as ...

  8. Central Children's Home of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Central Children's Home of North Carolina, officially the Central Children's Home of North Carolina, Inc., and historically known as Grant Colored Asylum, was founded in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1883. The home is a residential group environment for children up to young adults. A state historical marker was placed in front of the building ...

  9. Hebrew Orphan Asylum (Baltimore, Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is a historic institutional orphanage and former hospital building located in the Mosher neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It has also been known as West Baltimore General Hospital, Lutheran Hospital of Maryland and is currently being redeveloped by Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation to be a Center for Healthcare & Healthy Living.

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