japan hospital sets up drop-off hatch for unwanted babies
this is so crazy. I was complaining to mr sauce about the saucette who is teething and not sleeping and he sent me this link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/japan.baby.hatch.ap/inde...
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they have those in my area, a few places in seattle and where I live you can drop em off at the fire station (no hatch, I think you ring a bell and then run like hell).
I guess it's better than a dumster, but fuck.
I don't think it's a bad idea, actually. If someone doesn't want a child at least it's then brought to a safe place and adopted out to someone who does want it. Sad but at least not dead or abused and *hopefully* has a happy ending.
And when i first read the title "drop-off hatch" I thought they made something like a laundry shoot to put the babies down. Whew!
guess it's all the Easter subtext around me?
"When you're so high you're dropping your stash, well, you're too high."
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
.Do you think this is a bad thing? We have them here in Los Angeles since almost weekly newborns are dumped in trash bins (not even shoppping malls or parks).
Also, no ask, no tell from Fire Departments, Police, etc...(although most mothers would never go to police station. I guess in te end it saves lives. I thought this was pretty much everywhere?
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it's called a Safe Haven law.
in this case, though, i was imagining a laundry chute for some reason.
"Trust those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it."
There was an outcry in Il a few years back because of a string of babies ditched outside in the winter. As a result, now we can drop them off at hospitals in the first few days. I always thought, geez, I could never do that with an unwanted baby because the look of scorn on the nurse's face would haunt me for life. Later, as I was reading about sensitive people and national cultures I realized that places like Japan take that into account moreso than here. No face to face contact would help a sensitive person.
***the United States is one of only four out of 168 countries studied to not have some form of paid family leave for new moms. We join Swaziland, Papua New Guinea, and Lesotho in not having that policy in place. ***
i'm getting visions of the book return bin at the library.
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." -- Maureen Dowd
Me too..
i thought it meant a drop-off hatch coming from inside the hospital going into a dumpster, for women who have babies and then don't want them. duh. jeez that would be bad, wouldn't it?
actually, i think this is a good thing (the real thing, not what i thought it was). more options for women. it's better than a bathroom at the mall.
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