what would you do?
By Dday50627
@Dday50627 (359)
United States
September 22, 2008 12:57am CST
Let's imagine you wake in the night to a sound outside. You get up to see what the noise was. You peak out your windows and see nothing at all. Then, the doorbell rings. All you can think of is that it is 3 a.m. You go to the door and peek outside. You see nothing so you open the door and... there is a basket with a baby inside of it. The baby is wrapped in a blanket and sleeping soundly. You scan the yard and see nobody anywhere. You take the baby inside and check to make sure all is ok with the baby. You find a note inside the blanket.
"Please, I can not care for my baby girl. She is healthy and fed but I will never be able to give her what she deserves.Enclosed are my family records, minus my name. I will not ever bother you if you should choose to keep her. I named her Isabelle, but if you need to, change her name. I love her too much to let her suffer a life on the streets like I did. God Bless you."
You have two choices now. Do you keep the baby that has been left at your door or do you call the authorities,knowing once they take the baby you will probably never see the baby again OR... Do you keep the baby and raise her as your own?
I would keep the baby, thanking God for the gift she is. I know that if I give her to the authorities I will spend the rest of my life searching to know if she was o.k. and did she have a good family to take care of her. At least with me, I know the care she will get and that she will be loved totally. Of course, nothing is that cut and dry and so you will have explaining to do to family and friends. You will always wonder when the mother might show back up again to claim her.I think I might even move away so that issue did not happen. But at any rate or condition, I WOULD for sure trust that God entrusted this innocent child to me and my family and keep her... What would YOU do???
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@WhatsHerName (2716)
• United States
24 Sep 08
Though I would love the keep the child I'm afraid I would have to report it to the authorities. It seems as if you could get in trouble for not reporting, my luck I'd be arrested and have to spend time in jail.
I believe the authorities would keep me posted on what becomes of the child. But, it would be hard to turn her over.
@Dday50627 (359)
• United States
25 Sep 08
I think i would truly take the chance rather than trust the baby to someone else... Besides, again, if it was left there I would think in my heart that someone bigger than me know I would be a good father...
@WhatsHerName (2716)
• United States
25 Sep 08
Well I think it would truly be a heart breaking situation no matter what. If I lived in a cabin in the woods I would try to keep her.
Where I live now, it would be hard to just one day have a baby. I would have to tell everyone where I got her. Word would get out and with my luck I'd be all attached and she would be taken away and I'd end up in jail.
I think I'll just pray no one ever leaves a baby on my doorstep.
Oh and welcome to myLot! 
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
3 Oct 08
well i would prob call the cops just because of all the legal things.. if i wanted to have a baby i would put in to get an adoption asap (but like you said you may never see her again if you turn her in) but if you didnt turn her in then eventually you would have to do something when the child needed to go to school and they may think you kidnapped her or something..
since i dont want any kids i would turn her in or try to find some one i knew around me that wants a child so it might work out to where she isnt put in foster care.. i hate the system and dont trust it but i cannot deal with kids either so ugh!!
i know that that is still happening at churches and hospitals (leaving babies there) but i wonder if its still being done to people in houses..
@Dday50627 (359)
• United States
3 Oct 08
nahhhhhhhhhhhhh, now days even with all of the safe havens they have and laws to protect you if you do leave your newborn in a safe place, they just kill them and stuff tha in the garbage. THAt one goes beyond anything I can imagine. I will NEVER understand that!!!!!!! Thank you for reading and for responding. hugsssssss, Darrel...
@Cindycrocker (209)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I would keep the baby . If someone put a baby on my doorstep, I would feel that they chose me to raise the child and I would honor that.
I would try to make sure that I have the child legally, so that nobody could come and try to take it.
I would think since I have the babies birth record that I would somehow make sure my name gets on there as the mother.
I know this probably sounds somewhat underhanded or illegal but as you said, if you call the authorities they will just take the baby into the states custody, and then give it to whomever was next on the list for foster care and try to find the real mother.
I have to refer back to my first statement, If they chose me then me it would be come hell or high water. If I had to pack up and move to achieve it, I would do that as well.
I don't think I would change her name either, the mother who named the baby loved it enough to want it to have a better safer life and I think it would be a 'gift' to her to let her keep the name that her 'real' mom gave her/
@Dday50627 (359)
• United States
22 Sep 08
What a perfect answer. Hugsssssssssssss I agree 100%... You and I think a like. Thank you for your write. Always, Darrel
