We left the window open....................

[buttercup]

Two old ladies told me that in the old days (must be the good ole days eh? ) if a baby was born (not quite right ) they did not dress it / left the window open. Kindest way they said.
These two old ladies felt it was the right thing to do, not burden the system.


Your thoughts?

[Before Sunset]

Originally Posted by buttercup

Two old ladies told me that in the old days (must be the good ole days eh? ) if a baby was born (not quite right ) they did not dress it / left the window open. Kindest way they said.
These two old ladies felt it was the right thing to do, not burden the system.


Your thoughts?

I had to do a research paper for one of my classes. Here's a quote from an article I read:

"In the years before technology took over the neonatal units, doctors themselves often decided not to resuscitate a premature infant or one born with serious birth defects. 'If you look at the literature from the 1920s and 1930s on children with spina bifida, it's written that they were all stillborn," says Fleischman, 'We know they weren't all stillborn.'"

"Suffer the Little Children," Solomon, Stephen D, Technology Review. Cambridge: Apr 1995. Vol. 98, Iss. 3; pg. 42, 10 pgs

Of course I don't think it's the right thing to do. It's horrible.

[fuzzy butt]

Well it was the right thing to do back then.

[mikeinie]

Originally Posted by fuzzy butt

Well it was the right thing to do back then.

Don’t kid yourself, history is still in the making and there are places where this still goes on.
In China thousands of little girls are abandoned each year and end in orphanages (if they are lucky). If a child in a orphanage is deemed as unsuitable to be adopted (usually due to poor health) they are put in a separate area where they are pretty much left to die.

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/arc...ying_room.html

‘Suffer the children’?..... no problem there, they are still suffering all around the world.

[RedGlitter]

I don't have a problem with it. The technology to help deformed kids didn't exist then and that makes a huge difference. It was better than making the kid live in the attic for the rest of its life. People do what they have to do at the time.

[fuzzy butt]

Yes milkenie, I'm well aware of that.

I'm responding to the OP.

[Kathy Ellen]

Geeze Buttercup,

That is an interesting question. It's easy NOT to become pregnant with all the birth control available and knowledge shared with the younger generation as to how the human body works. With the exceptions of medical reasons , rape, or some accidents happening ,there is no reason why women should get pregnant if they don't wish to....

I watched the movie recommended by RJ called "Perfume...The Story of a Murder." It was a fabulous, but disturbing movie, for me, that took place in 18th century Paris. Pregnant women, pregnant by rape or lack of knowledge or birth control, were giving birth in the streets and leaving the babies to die in the gutters. Only those babies who were the strongest survived....the others lived in misery.

Did anyone watch the movie "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan? Most of the Chinese girls were sold into slavery or married off to a Lord for money or for hopes that they would survive. Even though the girls weren't deformed, they weren't wanted by society and would either die or become a prostitute.

So, I think that "that was then, this is now....."

[qsducks]

And it is still happening around the world. Girls as young as 5 sold into sex trades. Really gross what some parents will do for a few dollars. Sell their own child into a trade that has no regard for them at all.

[RedGlitter]

It is my understanding that in China, girl babies are still often killed at birth just for being girls. The people are so ignorant they fail to realize without girls there would be none of their precious boys.

I disassociate that from killing a child horribly deformed however.

[qsducks]

My BIL lucked out as he and his wife adopted two girls from China that were abandoned at birth for being girls. They even went back for a second daughter after they found out that his wife was pregnant. They are now the proud parents of two little girls from China and two little boys they had naturally.