Social workers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) expressed alarm over the continuing increase in the number of abandoned children in Ilocos region.
Jocelyn Mariano, the focal person of DSWD Region 1, said that at least 108 abandoned children were now under the custody of the agency since January to August this year.
“At 108, it is higher from the recorded number of abandoned children for the same period last year,†she said.
Mariano said that most of the abandoned children were illegitimate and offspring of Guest Relation Officer (GRO).
She said that one of the causes of child abandonment was the inability of the mother to sustain the child due to poverty. (PNA)
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