Missing and abandoned babies

[mikeandwilma]

I found a link in a past Reader's Digest issue that I thought I would check out. I went there and I have been in tears since then. It broke my heart as I read through the entire site. Mothers who have abandoned or killed their babies. I don't really know what to say cause I'm still tore up over it. You will just have to check the site out yourself to know what I mean. After reading it all I've decided to send a donation to them. I'm going to send one at least every year. Thought some of you all might be interested in doing the same. I am also going to try to get the local high school to send off for their videos and brochers to try to get through to young parents. I hope some of you might try to do the same. For those who don't know most states now have a law where a mother can leave her baby at a safe place without fear of prosecution. Please email this site and information around to everybody you know and have them pass it on to their friends and their friends pass it on to theirs...etc.. It could save a babies life. Thank you all. Here is the site...
http://www.gardenofangels.org/

[Maeryn]

Thanks for posting this. I have friends who work for Public Health, and teen pregnancy programs. I've sent them the link.

[jadegentle]

I'm sitting here with tears running down my face. I applaud this woman, and will happily make a donation (unfortuantely less than I'd like) this week.

[janelle]

The adults who teach our young people that there is such a thing as safe sex are the blame for this. Safe sex is a lie and the babies are paying for it. Why don't they trust our young people to have enough sense to abstain? What an insult to say well they are going to do it anyway so let's show they how to have "safe sex". Duh. Why don't they show them how to make a nest for the baby they will make when they have sex. Emphasize what will happen when one has sex and to be prepared for it. It's not the baby's fault.

[Maeryn]

It's not just young people that abandon and murder their babies like this. And it's not always horny young kids getting into "trouble".

Teenagers abstaining may prevent a lot of unwanted pregnancies, but not all of them. Babies are born for lots of reasons....rape, molestation, domestic violence (where the father forbids the mother from using birth control). Married couples use birth control, and it fails.

Education on pregnancy prevention should include all options, including abstaining. Safe sex may not be foolproof, but it still prevents a lot of unwanted babies from being born (not to mention preventing the spread of disease). There will be people who are going to be sexually active, no matter how much pressure they get to be abstinent. To do away with a critical aspect of public health education would be irresponsible.

This is not the fault of sex education. It's the fault of a society that does not value its children and families.

[janelle]

I don't know of anything that will prevent STDs. My hubby works for two OB/GYNs and he is trying to get them to go to the schools and inform the kids on what they will be getting into.

One bad form of STD is prevalent in this small community. It will cause miscarriages but the kids don't know that. Girls are risking their future fertility but no one tells them that. Not to mention the hartbreak of a miscarriage.

The young kids in this small community are very active sexually and it shows with an epidemic of young girls getting pregnant. They are even sharing their STDs around. In last Sundays paper they had on the front page how one girl decided to give her baby up for adoption and a story on it. At least the adults are trying to help after the fact, it's really too bad the kids don't hear the truth before the fact.

THERE IS NO SAFE SEX ONLY A PERCENTAGE RATE OF SAFER.

Young people think nothing bad will ever happen to them so they take chances and it happens. Older people will think more before doing risky things and they also have the resourses to give their baby up for adoption. Lots of young people will keep it quiet, wear large clothes and then when the baby comes panic and dump it. Older women will or should have the smarts not to do this unless they are wacked out on drugs or mentally ill.

[suziebee20]

I think it is horrible this site had to be created. This woman is a really strong lady and she's doing such a great thing, it's just sad that it happens and she has to do it. And it's not just the "teenagers" and the "young people" that do stuff like this, it's people in general. People tend to think that because as teenagers we seem to be "raging bags of hormones", which isn't always true. I don't know how anyone, no matter what the age, can live with leaving their baby to die.

I'm sexually active and I beleive me and my boyfriend are having "safe" sex. At my school they didn't preach abstinance, they told us the facts- statistics, deiseses, and how to "protect" ourselves. They also told us the only 100% safe method is abstinance. At the time I wanted to wait, but I found the perfect guy. I know my boyfriends clean because I know for a fact he hasn't been with anyone else besides me, I'm his first girlfriend. Do I blame it on the "family life" courses I was required to take? Of course not, I blame those courses for teaching us where to get affordable birth control so should we get pregnant we can spend that money on our baby, which I was planning on. BTW: I had a wonderful "nest" made for my baby, and no one had to teach me how to do that, I am responsible enough to have sex, and I do because we are responsible enough to care for a child.

I wish people wouldn't have the fixed generalzation that teens are the ones that (almost) always do stuff like this. The biggest thing we learned was that one half of all pregnancies are unplanned! Those arn't just young people getting pregnant when they don't want to, and they arn't the only ones who leave their babies to die. There are young women out there with the "smarts" to not "share" STDS and "panic" when they become pregnant.

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Sorry for all the "quotes", I have to get back in the habit of using them because I'm being placed in AP English 3-4 and they make us quote like mad!

[Candice]

That's so sad. The baby, Grace, was found really close to me. I never even heard anything about it. :(