[Karel Martel B]

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With average wages less than the equivalent of $50 a month at black market rates, three local councils and four national welfare groups all confirmed an increase in parents handing children over to the state, charities or friends and family.

Struggling to feed herself and her seven children, Venezuelan mother Zulay Pulgar said: 'It's better that she has another family than go into prostitution, drugs or die of hunger.'

The 43-year-old had to ask a neighbor in October to take over care of her six-year-old daughter after falling victim to the pummeling economic crisis.
The family lives on Pulgar's father's pension, worth $6 a month at the black market rate, in a country where prices for many basic goods are surpassing those in the United States.

In some cases, parents are simply abandoning their kids.
Last month, a baby boy was found inside a bag in a relatively wealthy area of Caracas and a malnourished one-year-old boy was found abandoned in a cardboard box in the eastern city of Ciudad Guayana, local media reported.