I feel so sad every time I read one of these. I think of teenage girls giving birth alone and terrified. I think of abused women giving birth in secret and abandoning their baby to what they hope will be a better life. I think of a mother with too many children already, wrapping her newborn lovingly, leaving it where it will be found and running away before she can change her mind. I think of young women forced to give birth in secret at home by ashamed parents who take the baby away and make it someone else's problem. It's totally heartbreaking I tell you. And every time I can't help wondering if this particular abandoned baby is the result of a problem accessing sexual health services, whether that be information about sex, contraception or termination.
Try googling "baby found" and check out the roughly 70 million hits. Or maybe don't, actually.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Yey! Because babies are ALWAYS a blessing, and ALWAYS wanted...
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I cry a little when I see stories like this. The poor desperate mother, and the poor little one. I find it so sad that our outrageously rich country can't support mothers and babies and children.
Sometimes I cry too. Mostly I'm just numbed now. Thought I'm not sure that I'd be willing to say that abandoned babies are caused by our country not being able to support mothers and babies and children. I feel sure that this little one will get the best of care though probably not from her biological mother.
We rarely find out why mothers abandon babies as that part of the story rarely makes the news. The "Shock, horror! Evil, Evil Woman!!" story sells newspapers whereas terrified pregnant teens (for example) are a dime a dozen in some areas, and not generally newsworthy :-(
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