Namibia: When Depression Leads to Baby Dumping

24 February 2016
opinion

Baby dumping is a crime, but experts say it is also a cry for help, and its causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental instability.

According to Windhoek clinical psychologist Shaun Whittaker, these contributory mental illnesses vary from postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression and postnatal depression.

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