Most media outlets have focused on China's adoption system and ignored parents who abandon their children when the need is to identify and punish them according to law.

An increasing number of parents are abandoning their sick and physically challenged children because they don't know that apart from being socially obliged, they are also legally bound to raise their offspring.

More than 86 percent of the respondents to a Nankai University survey said that perhaps it was unlawful to abandon a child but couldn't tell the reasons why it is unlawful, and 57.7 percent said they didn't know the laws and regulations on abandoning of children.