Discarded babies

warrior woman · Jan 30, 2004

Just another symptom of an ailing society. Disposable diapers, disposable kids. So very tragic and sad.

bonjovigirl · Jan 30, 2004

a young mother here in philadelphia stabbed her toddler two or three times with a steak knife and left her in the snow. THe baby is alive, and there has been an outpouring of support for the child, hunreds of people want to give her money, and a home. So, when you feel sick to your stomache about something so horrendous try to remember, for every one sicko there are hundreds of good people. However hard it is to think that when you hear these stories. There are so many wonderful people who want a baby so badly, and can't have one and these monsters have them and do such horrible things. Its so unfair.

fergus51 · Jan 30, 2004

If there is one thing I have learned in my job, it's that maternal instincts are not as natural or ingrained as we would like to think. It is incredibly sad, especially when you consider that all a mother has to do is leave a baby at a hospital, a church, wherever and it would be taken care of.

ADNRN · Jan 30, 2004

The mother was probably insane.

If she wasn't; if she was just a garden variety psychopath she would have had an abortion long before it was born--or just before it was born.

fergus51 · Jan 30, 2004

Do you mean you would think she was a "garden variety psychopath" if she had an abortion (rather than giving birth and leaving the infant to die)?

Burnt Out, ASN, RN · Jan 30, 2004

i wish i could describe the anger that is going through my veins toward this "mother" (and i use that term lightly ).

i will never understand.. why??? there are loving, caring people out there who have tried for years to have a child and they can't, or their children die. i just do not understand why people who apparently have no business what so ever having a baby-get too?! we see it on the news all the time about these people who are throwing away or killing their children...i just do not understand why they get to have a child, a precious gift, that they do not appreciate and those of us who deserve a baby...go through hell and back to have the family we have dreamed about for so long. :crying2:

jewelsg627 · Jan 30, 2004

It truly makes me nauseous to think that people are actually capable of doing horrendous things like this. It true, I agree---it is very unfair that so many wonderful and gifted families/couples want to have children but cannot, yet idiots (and other words I will refrain from using) pop out kids like its nothing and then do things like this...it truly makes me bitterly angry and horribly sad...

:angryfire

PSA, RN · Jan 30, 2004

I too wonder how someone could do such a thing.

Here in our state anyone can drop a baby off at the local hospital and not have to answer any questions. Is it that way in your state?

Just last month there was a stillborn baby found in a dumpster here. And last year there was another baby found along side the road. My heart goes out to these children.. At least they will not have to grow up in this cruel world.

Jay-Jay, RN · Jan 30, 2004

Like some of the other posters in this thread, I very badly wanted to have a family, but was unable to. Since I got married quite late in life, and married an older man, we also decided that adoption would not really be a great idea either. Needless to say, this type of story always makes me rage at the callousness and stupidity of such mothers, and the unfairness of life. Okay, maybe she didn't want the child, or couldn't keep it, ...but for heaven's sake, at LEAST she could have put it up for adoption!!

gwenith, BSN, RN · Jan 30, 2004

I knew a woman who had spent 15+ years of her life working in a mission in a third world country. She showed me a picture of a young girl and told me this was her "adopted" daughter whom she could not bring to Australia with her. When I asked how she came to adopt the child she said that she had saved the bably from being thrown in the well. In that country there was no social support and many young girls would get jobs in housholds only to become pregnant to one of the males within the household - some willingly some as a means to keep thier jobs and some even more sinister reasons. Because of the lack of social welfare and the cultural bias toward unmarried mothers a woman would inevitably not only loose her existing job but would not get another. Killing the baby was often seen as the only way out.

It happens - more frequently and more widespread than you would believe. It is also not a "new" thing. Our babies are few and precious but it was not always this way.

live4today, RN · Jan 30, 2004

I will never be able to understand someone's reason for doing such an awful thing as throwing away a life...a baby...a child...any life. I can't judge those who do things like this because I am not here to judge them. God is the One and Only True Judge of life, and He knows why these things happen, even when we don't. To us it is cruel, but far beyond our human vision and understanding lies a much deeper meaning to life that we cannot possibly begin to fathom. Since I believe life exist after death, that baby is far better off with God than if the baby had been left on earth. Saying all this still angers me though for I love children very much, and would gladly take in any baby that is not wanted.