This Is The Controversial Mailbox To "deposit" Unwanted Babies

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

An initiative that would reduce the number of children abandoned in unsafe public places is causing controversy in American communities.

In several cities in the United States, recently in the state of Indiana, mailboxes are being installed to leave newborns in "safe" places, such as the Warsaw, Indiana fire station. Eight other cities have unanimously voted to have such drawers in the state.

The baby boxes or baby boxes will be positioned next to the fire station to allow the person who abandons the infant to do so anonymously.

It is not a joke! and it would work as follows:

Once the child has been placed in the box, an alarm will go off to alert firefighters in the emergency service to pick up the child. For the safety of the infant, the boxes, whose concept dates back to medieval times, are equipped with devices to regulate the temperature.

"Abandonment is a problem," says Priscilla Pruitt, from the Safe Haven Baby Boxes organization to the BBC. "These young women do not want to be known or seen. Especially in small towns where everyone knows everyone."

The objective of the baby boxes is "to combat infanticide that occurs when mothers, often young and insecure, give birth completely alone and are unable to cope with the situation."

Legislation allowing mailboxes to be installed has been passed in only three states.

However, this is not a law that has many contentments. " I do not think it is appropriate to allow parents to give up a just baby depositing it in a place before handing it over to a police officer, firefighter or an employee of a hospital, " said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who banned law that allows the installation of boxes.