37 abandoned babies over last year in Kosovo

Their cries are heard at the entrance to the Nonatology Clinic at QKUK. Their tender voices listen to all who are there, except for the parents who abandoned them, as they came into existence.

From the report of the country's Centres for Municipal Social Work from January to April 2025, 5 babies have been abandoned.

According to the QPS, in most cases, the reasons which mainly lead to the abandoning of children have to do with the birth of extramarital children, where young mothers find no support from their families or even from their partner. While Luan Morina, director of the Neonatology Clinic, told Kosovo Radio currently in their clinic, they have two abandoned babies.

Even this year, as we do other years, we have cases of abandoning newborn babies from parents who have claimed that their children do not take them and give up on child care. The dropout phenomenon is quite disturbing, since years of parenting are present. Actually, we have two abandoned babies in the Neonatology Clinic at KKUK. As for the health and routine aspect of these babies, you tend clinic staff”, Morina said inRTK, broadcast Periscope.

Among the main reasons parents abandon their children, according to the social worker in the Gynecology Department at QKUK, Hafize Hamza-Gec, is the serious socioeconomic situation, unwanted pregnancies, and the lack of the partner's will to take responsibility for an extramarital child or a couple's separation.

Biological parents usually abandon and neglect their children and completely ignore their basic needs. Abandoning babies usually occurs in outside marriage, where fathers still leave their children without giving birth, while postborn mothers” said Geci.

During the past year alone, 37 babies have been abandoned by their parents, with 22 babies with the help of the Social Work Centers, having a family reunion with one of their biological parents. /Periscope/