Hong Kong health officials and children's rights advocates are issuing warnings about the risks of unassisted home births and vaccine refusal. This follows the arrest of a couple suspected of child neglect after failing to register their baby's birth.

Unassisted home births and vaccine refusal put mothers and newborns at life-threatening risks, a Hong Kong doctor and a children’s rights group have said, stressing that parental choice must not come at the expense of an infant’s well-being. Their warnings followed the arrest of a Hong Kong couple on suspicion of child neglect. The pair claimed to have given birth to their third child, Danny, at home and had not registered his birth, citing privacy concerns in refusing to submit to a DNA...