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Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

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by Michelangelo11

2 hours ago

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| theguardian.com

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Digit-Al

8 minutes ago

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I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America?

Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to prove that you are fit to be a parent. And yet in this story a court basically says "hey, you wanna adopt this baby you found? Yeah? Here you go."

Sounds like this guy I knew should have moved to America. He and his wife could have just pulled up to an orphanage, said "I'll take that one", and been parents immediately - if this story is anything to go by.

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hartator

6 minutes ago

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I feel adoption is either super easy or super hard. No one claims the system is fair. It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline.

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FartyMcFarter

1 hour ago

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Everything about this story is so satisfying, that if I read it in a lesser source I would be doubting it.

The person finding the baby was the person who eventually adopted him. The judge asking the guy to adopt the baby was the same judge that performed the wedding of the couple doing the adoption. Just so many great details.

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wood_spirit

1 minute ago

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Many of us could easily imagine, once chance puts us in the position of the person who can’t walk past, taking a concerned interest in the outcome and, realising that the baby would go into the care system, stepping up and doing the massive step of talking it upon ourselves to provide that home.

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throeididkf

1 hour ago

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Satisfying? I wish they would find and punish child abuser, who did this! There are safe better ways to "dispose" unwanted baby, there is zero reason to dump living human baby into bin or leave it in dumpster in metro!

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croes

53 minutes ago

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Where does it say the baby was in a dumpster or bin?

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tomcam

1 hour ago

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I too am moved, Farty McFarter!

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aerodog

6 minutes ago

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Statistics consistently show that gay men have dozens of sexual partners in their life (I only recently discovered this). People like that do not provide a good environment for a child to be raised. If only a normal couple had adopted him...

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sevenseacat

1 hour ago

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What a lovely story, what a lucky family to have found each other!

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wrecked_em

2 hours ago

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A great, beautiful story! :)

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singingwolfboy

1 hour ago

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https://archive.ph/aE9Xg

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kasperni

1 hour ago

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Guardian is not behind a paywall?

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GaProgMan

1 hour ago

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Here in the UK, you have to either pay a subscription fee or accept ALL of their tracking cookies in order to read their articles.

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Digit-Al

37 minutes ago

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I know a lot of people like to dump on Firefox, but a number of paywalls, including the Guardian one, completely disappear when you use it. For those that don't, some of them disappear if you use reader mode.

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andrepd

51 minutes ago

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Isn't that the choice people on hn claim to want to have? Let me pay for journalism and not be tracked please.

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applfanboysbgon

35 minutes ago

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You may be surprised to learn that there is more than one person on HN, and also that among the group of people made up of more than one person, some of them have different opinions than others.

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wazoox

1 hour ago

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That's a good heartwarming story to start the weekend :)

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globular-toast

1 hour ago

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This made me want to listen to 2Pac.