Pretty wild! All states give you at least 30 days to dump your baby, no strings attached. Some states give you 60 days!
I feel like more people should know about this! It seems like a highly under utilized ability.
You can drop your baby off a fire station if you’ve got the time.
I thought you had to fill out a form or identify yourself or they’d do DNA on the baby to identify you. But this says parents can remain nameless. I’m not sure what that entails.
Yeah from what I understand you can pull up, say the magic words, give no documentation of any type, then leave without the baby
A while back I fell into the rabbit hole of people dropping off the baby without informing the other parent. turns out it’s really hard to get the kid back
Omg, that is insane! Imagine coming home from work like
“Honey, I dropped the baby off at the fire station today and the fireman yelled ‘BACK BACK NO TRADE BACK’ when I handed it over, so I’m pretty sure the decision is final. I hope you weren’t too attached to the babe.”
pro life truly is wonderful!
what
Yeah this directly came out of people abandoning babies in all sorts of place. Some places have these nest type of boxes all padded and temperature controlled where people can leave babies. This is the type of good thing I could see today republicans rallying to stop.
It’s better than leaving them in some men’s room baby changing station with the sign “Place sacrifice here” sign taped to it.
Better for most, but the rest area demon who is sustained on changing station sacrifices really hates this law.
What about a 956 month old toddler?
Couldn’t hurt to try… sounds very old tho TBH. Have you tried a retirement home?
We keep hoping, but he keeps throwing press conferences.
That’s functionally what the US congress is … so yes?
You know, a flight from overseas is expensive to do this, but you got to look at the long term savings…
Until ICE deports the baby right back to you, defeating the whole purpose. What a cruel joke.
Were fire stations included in the places they raid?
Who knows where it would be deported. Would they get to you, in time to make sure its going to the right place? Give clothing branding the wrong country. Hell, ice may deport you before they know.anything about a baby
If the kids dropped at the firehouse he’d automatically be considered a U.S. citizen unless they had paperwork proving otherwise
Uh, ice doesn’t really care about citizenship.
Can you pick them up again at the end of the day? Free daycare would be nice.
Back back no trade back!
Yes, the firemen tend to them until you’re ready to pick them up. It’s a wonderful service.
All 50 states of what?
It starts solid, but then there liquid, gaseous…. Scientists will need to help me with the 47 others here…
I mean, there’s like ~22 phases for ice alone.
Ice-nine when?
Plasma
Bose Einstein Condensate
50 states of gray
For people with a real punishment fetish
The US is simply where the highest number of anglophones reside. You’d have to sum up the next three nations to get more English speakers than the US (according to world atlas.com).
Assuming an English speaker on the internet is American is still rude, but not exactly a bad guess - and hardly chauvinism imo
Around 1½ billion people in the world know English, less than ¼ of them live in the US.
I’d bet about 10% of them live in India alone! It’s been my experience that when people think about the global populace as a whole they don’t give India nearly as much weight as it warrants XD
Don’t do numbers at me, if a quarter of the roulette wheel says USA we both know where you’re putting your money.
Again, nobody said it was clean thinking or appropriate to pre-judge, only that you can easily see how the mistake gets made without ever calling it chauvinism.
[…], only that you can easily see how the mistake gets made without ever calling it chauvinism.
This is the point where I strongly disagree with you, constantly mistaking less than ¼ for being the most likely is not easily made, there’s a good reason for why the expression US Defaultism exists, because a particular mindset is required for such a mistake to be easily made.
~25% is a lot when you’re talking about demographics that large. The US has more English speakers than the next two countries combined. If you’re looking at native English speakers, it’s about 63%.
Anglophone is an incorrect metric.
There are more non native English speakers than native English speakers.
On English websites and communities there is no difference between those two as long as the website or community is not specifically for that purpose.
Most people on Lemmy do not live in the US.
Again, and I’ve tried to be very clear about this, I’m not saying they’re correct. We agree that it’s a mistake. I’m explaining how it is an easy mistake to make.
This is a frustrating conversation.
This is a frustrating conversation.
I feel this, deep in my bones, upon reading it.
I found this little cozy spot. I’m gonna curl up in a post right here. *spins 3 times and plops down
Micronesia
Consciousness
It’s clear if you click the link - the article will tell you if your inference skills fail you!
Nebraska had no age limit for a bit. Guy dropped off 9 of his 10 kids(1 was 18) cause he felt overwhelmed after his wife died a year earlier.
I’m more concerned how he had ten kids and then felt overwhelmed when his wife left him. Like what the fuck?!
Died, not left.
And likely yeah, someone would get overwhelmed doing two peoples’ jobs.
Grieving for a partner definitely doesn’t make it easier to raise your children?!
And I’ve not met many men with 10 kids who are super into doing the whole “dividing the labor of parenting evenly” thing, and I went to catholic schools, I knew some big families. And even if he had been the type to do that, you aren’t winding up being the breadwinner for a family with 10 kids and having both low stress finances and a low stress job. So adding in lots of extra home duties and possibly reduced financial capabilities and mourning will probably wreck you.
That said, I’ve never met a family that large where the parents kept actually parenting beyond number 3 or 4. Some of the most horrifically parentified people I ever met were middle daughters of large families. Also the kids are struggling too, and each of them is likely to have taken some lasting psychic damage from being abandoned by their dad, even temporarily, shortly after their mom died.
Because he didn’t do Jack raising them probably
Or doubling the responsibilities was too much.
Double it and pass it to the next person
If doubling was to much, it would have been enough to “only” drop 4-5
As long as we are doing hypothetical, he may have been working long hours to pay for all the costs while she was stay at home. When she died, working all the time and trying to care for kids and grieving is going to be massively stressful. Bot to mention the aunt for 7 of the kids decided to have a custody battle so lots and lots of possible things leading to being overwhelmed.
But you clearly assume he is a deadbeat because he’s a man. Have fun with that.
What has him being a man to do with all that
Because he didn’t do Jack raising them probably
Would you have assumed the sameblack of parenting if the father had died and the mother dropped off the kids?
“I think there’s a misperception that we just inadvertently left an age cap out. But the reality was we wanted to save lives of older kids who might be at risk,” said Amanda McGill Johnson, a Nebraska state senator at the time.
That actually kind of makes sense? I mean, dropping off teens is excessive, but maybe it highlights an issue? Overwhelmed parents of teenagers isn’t something I had on my list of people that need more help, at least.
That is surprisingly kind for a Nebraskan legislator. Isn’t NE one of the states where they’d rather let women die than abort a fetus?
No, they’d rather let the mother die and get a free child prostitute out of it than to abort a fetus.
10 kids jfc
I guess it highlights why there should be no age limit… the response to introduce an age limit of 30 days certainly is not the right one.
Wtf! That is insane 🤣 good read!
TIL people in USA still use insular leading language ignorant to the >200 states in the world. ;D
I suppose adding “US” before “states” would have been a more inclusive language choice, but I was going for conciseness over inclusivity I guess. Using context, I feel that the meaning of my title is still clear.
I do however apologize to anyone that may be offended by my language choice!
Just wait till you hear about how they call cities and towns in other countries “settlements” to make you care less about them being destroyed. Even when those places are older than the USA.
Where are you even seeing this?
All over every piece of corporate owned media, lately especially re: Gaza and especially from NYT/BBC? Same deal as calling the kids in the Epstein files “underage women” and raping them sex. Doesn’t “clearing a settlement” sound better than “destroying a city”? It’s kinda disappointing you haven’t developed at least this much awareness of media biases by now, hate to imagine what the LLMs are imprinting on that preciously smooth brain :(
So you haven’t seen it and you immediately redirect to other topics and then turn to name calling. Hope you have a good life
Brother I gave you two specific examples and a more general overview, if you need more “here comes the airplane” than that I suggest seeing if your mother has enough patience left to deal with you
Most fire stations in the US have at least one person trained as a paramedic/EMT and in many places all of them have at least some medical training. Because in a lot of places fire trucks arrive, there’s people who need immediate medical help.
So they have the basic skills to keep a newborn baby alive until they can get it to a hospital. And if it’s older and healthy, they can just play with it and feed it and clean it as needed until Child Services arrives or it grows up and joins the crew.
In the event that this situation arises, hopefully the mother knows someone is at the station. There are plenty of empty stations that are used by volunteer departments.
Yes as a city dweller I take it for granted that my taxes pay for a professional fire-and-rescue service.
Other Safe Haven locations are hospitals, which makes sense, and some police stations (although I can’t imagine a worse place to leave a baby!)
or it grows up and joins the crew.
😳
Part of the truck, part of the crew!
Well, where did you think new firefighters come from?
Fascinatingly the fire is an important part of their reproductive cycle. When a firefighter dies in combat, the heat makes their body spread seeds far and wide. After roughly a year, a new crop will be growing from the ashes.
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The larger older firefighters split into two new younger firefighters.
Station!
Defeated fires?
See, when mommy fire and daddy fire are left alone long enough and it warm and cozy…
The children yearn for the fires
Can I legally drop someone else’s baby off at the fire station?
If it’s on fire, yes.
The baby or the fire station?
Yeah my mom always brought that up when I got in trouble
