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.

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.

What about a 956 month old toddler?

All 50 states of what?

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

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?"

Can you pick them up again at the end of the day? Free daycare would be nice.

TIL the US has free child care.

Yeah, but when I drop a teenager off at the fire station, they just bring her back home and tell me I can't do that because it's considered "child abandonment."

From what height am I allowed to drop off my child?

/s

Can I legally drop someone else's baby off at the fire station? 🤣

Yeah my mom always brought that up when I got in trouble

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.

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.

*US states

You know, a flight from overseas is expensive to do this, but you got to look at the long term savings...