It’s a big problem, if the child has no family, no nothing, it is better to give them to the government

Women living in extreme poverty, and just surviving from one day to the next.

• Women living in extreme poverty, and just surviving from one day to the next.
• Illegal immigrants with no support structures.
• Women with no family or support structures
• Women who have moved from one relationship to another and their new boyfriend does not want to take care of the child from a previous relationship.
• Women who have HIV/AIDS.
• Women who have been raped by a family member (incest is often mentioned), someone in their community or a stranger (multiple perpetrator rape in SA is the highest in world).
• Women who have been abandoned by their boyfriends.
• Young teenagers who are still at school.
• Prostitutes.
• Alcoholics and drug addicts (usually living on the streets).
• Women living in rural areas in extreme poverty who travel to the city to abandon.