Korea moving to embrace diverse family types
Posted : 2021-05-02 15:11
Updated : 2021-05-02 18:34
Members of activist groups, including Political Mamas and the Korean Hanbumo Association, hold a press conference in front of KBS in Yeouido, Seoul, April 14, to protest discrimination against single parents. This issue came up after the broadcaster decided to have Japanese TV personality Sayuri Fujita, who became an unmarried mother by choice, appear on a childcare program. Korea Times photo by Lee Yu-ji
By Bahk Eun-ji
Every country has a legal definition of and boundaries around what constitutes a family, so that it can apply laws in regard to various family issues, such as childcare, household subsidies, inheritance and housing among others.
How dark world of baby farming was exposed in sensational trial that brought lasting change
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The case led to a shake-up of public health care and child protection. Above, a nurse with babies in the Perth Public Hospital, 1919.
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For several weeks in 1907, the Australian public was gripped by a sensational trial in Perth that exposed the dark practice of baby farming.
While it was a trial over the death of one infant, proceedings revealed that 37 babies had died in the care of one woman, Alice Mitchell, over a six-year period, leading to headlines suggesting she might be Australia s worst serial killer.
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