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Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
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Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#62I insist you listen to them tell it: https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-33-on-the-way-to-dinne...
Interesting. On this page, the one dad is wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. But in a photo on The Guardian article that same dad is wearing a New York Mets hat. I guess people can change after all.
Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#63Having gone through the foster parent licensing process in another state I'm shocked at how fast things moved in this case.
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Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#64I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to pr…
I feel adoption is either super easy or super hard. No one claims the system is fair. It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline.
Yeah, it's a short article. There are obviously lots of things it doesn't go into. I doubt the judge was like "want this baby? Pick it up from the orphanage, here's your receipt."
Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#65I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to pr…
Man, in the UK you can’t even get a frigging cat without having several inspections of your home and interviews to confirm that you will be a fit “parent”. I mean, I’m all for safeguarding in principle - but it evidently doesn’t bloody work. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0xz424v1o
Individual examples of the process not working doesn't mean it's overall a bad process. If you expect perfection, no adoption would ever occur.
Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#66Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here in the UK, you have to either pay a subscription fee or accept ALL of their tracking cookies in order to read their articles.
Isn't that the choice people on hn claim to want to have? Let me pay for journalism and not be tracked please.
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Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guardian is not behind a paywall?
Here in the UK, you have to either pay a subscription fee or accept ALL of their tracking cookies in order to read their articles.
there are a lot of sites that do that, especially in germany. and it annoys me to no end because i believe it is actually illegal. at least that's how i understand it. i might be wrong but i believe that tracking cookies must always be optional, paid or not.
Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#69Everything about this story is so satisfying, that if I read it in a lesser source I would be doubting it. The person finding the baby was the person who eventually adopted him. The judge asking the guy to adopt the baby was the same judge that performed the wedding of the couple doing the adoption. Just so many great details.
There is an excellent children’s book about their story. It’s hard to read to my kids without getting teary, tbh.
Re: Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
#70I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to pr…
I think there is a difference between adoption through the foster system and adoption before the child gets into the foster system. Im not sure about the laws around it, but the judge may have more discretion in the latter case.
My extended family has interacted with this side of the law in my area. From what I can gather, there are two primary goals for everyone involved: get the child to live with their (non-abusive) parent(s) if at all possible, or, failing that, get them into a household that wants them.
Its possible my experience is biased from the fact that it everyone involved was family.