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TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/til@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or doubling the responsibilities was too much.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If doubling was to much, it would have been enough to "only" drop 4-5

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What has him being a man to do with all that

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Because he didn’t do Jack raising them probably

    Would you have assumed the same lack of parenting if the father had died and the mother dropped off the kids?

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think there is enough background story to think the mother would have been a much better parent, giving up ALL children

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The fact that you can claim you need more information if it was a gender reversal, is exactly what they were pointing out.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Not exactly. They're basically saying that both genders would be bad parents by default for giving up all of their kids unless there was evidence of a compelling reason to think otherwise.

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