title: [Abandonment-adoption: experience at the neonatology service of the University Hospital Center in Sousse, Tunisia].
abstract: We studied the outcome of 178 newborns abandoned in the maternity hospital of Sousse, Tunisia during the past eight years. The natural mothers are frequently very young: 40% less than 20 years of age, 10% less than 16 years. In most cases (65%), there is no medical supervision of the pregnancy. There is a high rate of pathological deliveries (11%) and a small for date infants. As a consequence of a long hospitalization in neonatal unit, these infants have important morbidity and mortality. The minimum annual adoption rate is 77%. Most adoptive parents are middle class Tunisians and the large majority of adoptions are successful.
authors.affiliation: Service de néonatalogie, CHU, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Seboui
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boussoffara
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuss
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Amri
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jaziri
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Snoussi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D002670:Child, Abandoned; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D009359:Neonatology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014416:Tunisia
vernacular_title: Abandon-adoption: expérience du service de néonatalogie du CHU de Sousse, Tunisie.