Comments on: Abandoning Babies, Roman Style

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names girl boy » Abandoning Babies, Roman Style — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:50:00 +0000

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By: markm

markm — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:58:29 +0000

Yes, but they still can see the bimbo. Apparently, that’s too much shame for some women to bear. Or else, she just doesn’t believe that once people have checked the kid out, they won’t try to track her down and charge her with neglect.

By: beerslurpy

beerslurpy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:20:08 +0000

Down here you can drop them off at fire stations, no questions asked.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:29:48 +0000

It’s a holdover of our Puritanism. We don’t think it is enough to look out for the welfare of the child — we also have to look out for the spritual welfare of the mother, which requires at the very least shaming her, and in the eyes of a lot of people, criminally prosecuting her.

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:14:22 +0000

I wonder why America has no foundling wheels.

We prefer to kill them and call it choice.

By: mike hollihan

mike hollihan — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:12:43 +0000

I forget the name of the program, but Shelby County will allow mothers of newborns to drop them off at hospitals no questions asked. When a young woman dropped her infant off at a fire station, she wasn’t prosecuted but the number of places was increased.

There was an episode of MASH where a baby was dropped off at the camp and they dithered about what to do until Fr. Mulcahy told them about a convent up the road that did this. The finale was putting the baby into just such a barrel and ringing a bell to alert the nuns.

At least the Romans were an improvement over the Greeks, who just left babies up in the mountain to die of predators or exposure!

By: Earl Harding

Earl Harding — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:36:01 +0000

Hatches are better than leaving the child in a box, or a dumpster, or any of the other places desperate folks leave babies on the hope that they will be found.

Anonymous abandonment is distastful in many ways, but it is better than the alternatives.

By: Brutal Hugger

Brutal Hugger — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:37:42 +0000

Yeah, I know there are places you can safely and legally dump a baby in America, but I’m not aware of any that do it in this completely anonymous manner. Women can go to a hole in the wall and put a baby in a box. No need to talk to anybody, see anybody or even go inside. It’s the ultimate in easy, shameless baby dumping, and I don’t know of any places in America where women can do it.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:33:17 +0000

I was gonna say me and the Mrs. went to a charity breakfast for a similar concept. The group would take babies no questions asked. A worthy cause, I must say.

By: Dave thA

Dave thA — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:14:55 +0000

We do. Here is a trend report...