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.
As a person who was dropped off somewhere as a baby, I completely love this, this can help many babies live a full filling life tbh.
why can’t you drop it off if it’s older than a month? what if I want to drop off my 4-year-old
There once was a state with no age limit and people were driving tens of hours to drop 15/16 year olds off. Which they didn’t have enough resources to handle.
that’s completely fucked actually
Yeah, and what’s the latest I can pick them up? 11:00?
But, but I don’t even have a baby.
Drop by a fire station, you might be able to pick one up!
But aren’t fire stations kind of heavy?
Ah, the ol’ lemmy switcheroo!
What about Puerto Rico?
read the page
it says that all states, dc, and puerto rico
Yeah, I didn’t read the page, just the title.
TIL the US has free child care.
Where did you think firemen come from?
Toddlers are perfect for getting in all the small fiery caverns which the grown firemen can’t fit into.
From what height am I allowed to drop off my child?
/s
Depends. How high are you?
;-)
Reasonable. Now who’s gonna bet that some dip shit in Washington makes it illegal because “mothers should face the consequences of their decisions” or some bullshit.
Call me a cynical old bitch but when the US does something reasonable I always think “how they gonna fuck it up this time?”
Reasonable for the mother. The baby is rolling the dice.
Healthy babies are in high demand for adoption, so the odds are good, but not perfect, and its a terrible system to get stuck in, at least in my state.
Healthy babies are in high demand
Healthy white babies are in high demand.
And people are going to use that argument to get rid of safe haven zones.
Can you drop off your baby, once a month, for a couple of hours on a date night?
Nah, I was thinking something along the lines of the Right saying that Young mothers are abandoning their kids because “they’re selfish” or “they are avoiding responsibility” so some state passes a law that states that abandoned kids get DNA tested and traced back to their mothers so they can be forced to raise kids they can’t afford/can’t raise “to protect the family”.
The US has a track record of fucking over women and girls, what with their war against contraception, abortion, adequate child care, etc. It wouldn’t surprise me if the next move is “stop women giving kids up for adoption” under the guise of “protecting the family” or “personal responsibility” or some shit, but in reality is just a way to create cheap labour from underpaid women with a mouth to feed.
There is something similar called “baby hatch” in Germany, but those are usually located at hospitals. Why the fire station? It makes no sense to me.
In many states fire service is also emergency medical service.
It doesn’t have to be fire stations. But they are commonly used for a few good reasons.
They’re relatively ubiquitous. It shouldn’t be hard for someone to locate a fire station. They’re almost always staffed 24/7. They’re trained on basic first aid. Quite often, they’ll even have medics on staff.
Very importantly, though, they don’t have a lot of people coming in and out of them. One of the big benefits of this program is that there are zero questions asked and it’s as anonymous as you wish. The people who use these are often afraid they’ll be judged as a failure. The lockboxes have a built-in time delay so you can leave before the station is alerted.
Fire stations are public utilities owned by local governments. Also, hospitals are regularly visited by people, whereas fire stations are more private as they mainly send out and return from dispatches.
Fire stations are more anonymous, however you can give up rights to your child at Fire Stations, Police Stations, and Hospitals (far as we know) there are even some numbers and child protection will pick them up. Reason is because they rather take the child safely than deal with well… yk
Why the fire station?
they’re staffed 24/7
Hospitals close for the night?
Fire stations are everywhere, staffed by trustworthy people, who inevitably also have medical training. Additionally they aren’t scary like the police are.
They’re the people you call if you need help.You can surrender an infant at a hospital too, as well as a police station, but fire stations are just more frequent.
Hospitals in the US are kind of scattered, largely as a result of private equity tomfoolery. A lot of communities don’t have one nearby. But pretty much every community has at least a volunteer fire station, and I believe all firefighters are required to be trained in at least first aid, if not be fully-qualified EMTs.
ALso they are in places that arnt easily reached too, and in busy traffic area, so not safe.
They are local to every town and always have people there
*US states
You understood it anyway
*US states
Why was that clarification necessary? In what context does “all 50 states” not apply to only the US?
Because there are other countries with states, like Mexico, Brazil, and India. Do you know how many states are in each country? Neither did I, until I looked some up. Mexico has 31 states, btw, and it’s causing my brain to itch with its odd number instead of even. There are no other countries with 50 states, but I didn’t know prior and now I have useless trivia folded into my melon.
Because there are other countries with states… There are no other countries with 50 states,
Exactly. So, what was the point of the USA clarification?
Because there are other countries with states, like Mexico, Brazil, and India. Do you know how many states are in each country? Neither did I, until I looked some up. Mexico has 31 states, btw, and it’s causing my brain to itch with its odd number instead of even. There are no other countries with 50 states, but I didn’t know prior and now I have useless trivia folded into my melon.
What other country has 50 states?
none, but people don’t tend to know that
I don’t know
So if an article refered to ‘in the 36 states’ would you what country theyre talking about off the top of your head?
answer
Nigeria is the only country with exactly 36 states
There are plenty of complains of the web being US-centric, that i think its perfectly fair to state, and not expect everyone from every country to know how many states, just because its America.
Nigeria, obviously
I know! Nigeria!
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.
Literally no questions asked. A lot of fire stations even have special temperature-controlled compartments with alarms connected so that people can drop their baby off without even being seen.
Yeah from what I understand you can pull up, say the magic words, give no documentation of any type, then leave without the baby
That seems like it would open up a whole can of worms when, a decade later, your kid should be starting school. They ask you where he is and you have no documentation of what happened to him. Don’t they start asking serious legal questions about your “missing” kid, and accusing you of foul play?
Sometimes not even say words. This is truly basket-on-the-doorstep rules.
this is important to prevent the issue of mothers leaving their babies in the dumpster instead. it’s sad they grow up an orphan, but better then the alternative by a mile.
Really? I mean, I wouldn’t just leave a baby in a dumpster. I’d wang it against the side a dozen times first. That’s 10+2 for the metrics out there!
What the fuck bro
Bong! Bong! Bong!
That’s why you can drop them at the FD, so nobody does that.
pro life truly is wonderful!
what
I assume they’re referring to the pro-life movement being responsible for creating a whole bunch of unwanted pregnancies/children because of their opposition to birth control measures and abortion. I also assume they are being sarcastic.
I guess the person is referring to the “Pro Life” movement (in a sarcastic way, I hope).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement
yeah. in short: make more unwanted babies, drop off more babies. im glad to live somewhere abortions are legal. pro life is a nightmare.
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 having some light hearted satirical goading funs.
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?
The region has a population density of 97 people per square kilometer.
400 sq kilometers would make ~38,000 people.
So you are saying that makes 8 cities that are unspecified in any reports of which cities they might be and they are somehow slighting those 8 cities by not getting a response from the general.
“Syrskyi’s statement did not make clear how much of the newly secured territory had previously been under Russian control and how much lay in “grey zone” areas not firmly held by either side. Ukraine’s General Staff did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.”
Sounds like they don’t know anything but reported what the general told them.
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
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.”
“I dropped Billy off for camp at the fire station. What do you mean thats next week?”
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.
Before fire stations, churches and monasteries did the same thing. And like how some fire stations have a dedicated baby drop box, the churches and monasteries sometimes did, too.
now that is wild.
