This is hardly the sort of thing I think about or focus on, but I am laid off and spend a good bit of time looking at news.
This just leaped out at me. I have never expended any thought on what happenes in one of the terrible stories we hear about babies being found in trashbags and dumpsters or being left in parking lots or what-have-you. It's bad enough to hear it: we are victimized by the awfulness of the reports and I think most people do care and feel awful but they have to tune it out.
What can you do?
I am posting only a snippet to get your attention: you will want to go read the whole article, but I am warning you: It's ROUGH, even for a hardass like myself.
Over the filigree is the content and I am posting only the least distressing passages.
Tiny caskets: Illinois group gives funerals to abandoned babies
It is the story of
Rest in His Arms, a decade-old Illinois charity started by Susan Walker, 46, after she saw reports about a dead baby boy found at a recycling plant. His parents were never found.
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“We had 150 total strangers show up – even the people who found him at the recycling plant came,” Walker said.
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Over the years, the group has provided funerals to 25 children, mostly infants, who were abandoned or victims of crimes. It also has provided help to parents too poor to bury their deceased children.
Go read the whole thing, it is fascinating how a person was impacted by these heinous situations and figured out something to do about it.
There's something terribly unacceptable about this: that it should even have to happen is probably something we cannot change but my gut feeling here is that if we had The Safety Net we should have this would be much rarer. I mean, I hate to drag 'politics' into this but if we can raise 'all the boats' people may be less pressed to the wall.