left at your doorstep

[seductive_tee]

A newborn baby is placed on your door step.

Would u offer to keep/adopt the baby after notifying police?

[Juicey1]

No I wouldn't. I don't want another child. My oldest is 22 and the youngest is 11. I don't want to go through it again.

I would like to know if it went to a good family or not. I would be concerned, but i wouldn't want to keep the baby.

[Bedroomeyes]

I doubt if I will keep it.. Just depends on where I am in my life.. ie - still struggling, still single.. :rolleyes:

If anything, I probably will offer to do the foster care thing.. Until they are able to find a place for it...

[nubianx2]

I definitely wouldn't want to keep it, but I'd do everything in my power to assist in making sure that the child was placed in a good home.

[Toffee]

Nope.. I can barely take care of myself.

[HulaSista]

i would keep it...i only have one...i have it in my heart to adopt many more. so...i would do what i could to keep the child...

[Babygirl]

I would keep it and raise it as my own..might consider finding the mother and writing her a thank you letter.

[ThickBodyHottie]

you lay down with dogs, you get fleas...who knows what this child will be when it gets older...

[Tastey]

I would definately want to keep it.

Would I? It's doubtful. Being a single parent of one child is hard enough.

[Babygirl]

Originally posted by ThickBodyHottie+
you lay down with dogs, you get fleas...who knows what this child will be when it gets older...
You would turn this child in? Possibly into a home filled without love? Maybe you could make a DIFFERENCE in that child's life dispite said "issuses". Maybe it's just me wanting a child that badly? :confused: :rolleyes:

[SeaDuceme2]

I would try to keep it! ....

[Brightness]

I don't know that I would keep it. . .not that I wouldn't want to but you always have to remember there are two sides to that child's existence just because one side didn't want her doesn't mean that the other feels the same way.

I would, however, feel a bit of a concern for the child having found it so I would christen it my 'god-child'. . .you know how WE (black folkz) do. . .always got play cousins and sisters/bothers. . .nieces/nephews. . .grandparents. . .do we even have just friends, anymore. . .:D

[ThickBodyHottie]

hell yeah, i would turn it in...i don't know the history of how that child was conceived...it could be a "damien" or something...

[que90nek]

definitely turn it in...and feel good doing so!
i saved that childs life.

but...let me caution u...before adoption ...get ALL medical records and even do your own tests....that way you can be prepared for whatever may occur in the child.....

[HulaSista]

great advice Que...

how about...

Have a faith in God that he will help you take care of that child?

That is the only thing that would keep me from turning the child in and sustain me while i take care of the child...

[mystkev]

No, I have no idea what kind of background it has, fuck around and be dealing w/Rosemary's Baby or a Firestarter or some shit. No thank you.

[zuriyahe]

I would do the right thing and turn the child in to the authorities. I would be interested in keeping him/her. But I do not know that I am not in the best position to care for her. I like what Bright said...I would be interested in keeping tabs on him and perhaps be a big brother...

For some reason, I do not move on the concern that the kid will be a bad seed or something...

If I could take care of the kid, I would and hope for the best... It's amazing what a whole lotta love can do...

[seductive_tee]

I have an 18 year old....i'd turn the child in or call my sister......

[belleza]

I would keep it until a home was found!

Yes you don't know what the child my have but I am sure that most people only THINK that they know what they are having when they give birth. Not many people question or have tests done until they get pregnant. How many people on the hush did a background check on the their child's father/mother or asked them about mental history or sickle cell?

[que90nek]

Originally posted by que90nek+


but...let me caution u...before adoption ...get ALL medical records and even do your own tests....that way you can be prepared for whatever may occur in the child.....

context. this was posted right after WE started havin issues with my adopted brother.

[mystkev]

Originally posted by justagirl+
Yes you don't know what the child my have but I am sure that most people only THINK that they know what they are having when they give birth. Not many people question or have tests done until they get pregnant. How many people on the hush did a background check on the their child's father/mother or asked them about mental history or sickle cell? What other people do about this situation is most definitely their business. But like I said before, I'm not taking in a child that I don't know about.

Not only that, but I don't have children. And for damn sure I will be checking out his family, and observing who I am procreating with. That's a big deal for me.

I know that for some this situation hits closer to home, but I already know, I'll have problems dealing with these issues in my own child, why take on a burden that I don't have to?

Y'all continue to live your lives how you see fit, and I will do the same. You don't like it too bad.

[zuriyahe]

Originally posted by mystkev+
What other people do about this situation is most definitely their business. But like I said before, I'm not taking in a child that I don't know about.

Not only that, but I don't have children. And for damn sure I will be checking out his family, and observing who I am procreating with. That's a big deal for me.

I know that for some this situation hits closer to home, but I already know, I'll have problems dealing with these issues in my own child, why take on a burden that I don't have to?

Y'all continue to live your lives how you see fit, and I will do the same. You don't like it too bad.

Myst...this thread is about what people want to do with a baby that was left at "their" doorstep. Everybody's answer, including yours, is "correct" because that is what they would do.

I did not see this thread as trying to convince others, including you, to change their minds... I do not think that anybody is questioning your "opinion" :D

[mystkev]

Originally posted by zuriyahe+


Myst...this thread is about what people want to do with a baby that was left at "their" doorstep. Everybody's answer, including yours, is "correct" because that is what they would do.

I did not see this thread as trying to convince others, including you, to change their minds... I do not think that anybody is questioning your "opinion" :D LOL, you don't have to explain ANYTHING to me, nor did I say someone was trying to convince me or anyone else.

I quoted someone, and responded to their quote. And I can do that.

And if you don't like it, too bad.

[Andre98]

And as much as we want kids, I'd have to say that I would not automatically want to keep the child. I would be more concerned with who the parents are, and why they chose our doorstep, that is, if it wasn't totally random. With the whole they know who we are mystery, I don't want someone trying to kidnap the kid after a few years.

That's the best I can answer, because as nice as it would be to give a cut and dried yes, this is what would make it more realistic.

[zuriyahe]

Originally posted by mystkev+
LOL, you don't have to explain ANYTHING to me, nor did I say someone was trying to convince me or anyone else.

I quoted someone, and responded to their quote. And I can do that.

And if you don't like it, too bad.


Lol! You be a feisty lil' angel today!

*pinching Myst's cheeks (on her face)*

Coochie coochie coo! :D

[mystkev]

You can kiss my squirrel while you at it :D

[zuriyahe]

Hmmmm....



well....


Uh....


OK!


Does your squirrel want some of my nuts?...:eek: :D :p

(oops! I digress from this innocent thread...:D)