Twenty years of baby boxes in Czechia: One adoptive father’s perspective

This Sunday marks exactly twenty years since the opening of the first baby box in Czechia — a place where mothers can anonymously leave their babies to be cared for and adopted. Today, there are 88 baby boxes across the country, and so far, 277 children have been safely placed in them.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Ema from Prague, a lively girl with curly hair and big black eyes, is one of the nearly 280 children who have been anonymously given up by their parents in a baby box.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková