Teen Pregnancies: Disposing of Babies Mirrors National Trend / Shana Gruskin.
by Gruskin, Shana; Staletovich, Jenny; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 10Family. Publisher: Sun-Sentinel, 2001; Palm Beach Post, 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Abandoned children | Denial (Psychology) | Infanticide | Infants (Newborn) -- Death | Sex education | Teenage pregnancy | FloridaDDC classification: 050 Summary: TEEN PREGNANCIES: DISPOSING OF BABIES MIRRORS NATIONAL TREND -- "They're called porcelain deliveries. They're the babies born to panicky teenagers who, alone and suffering acute labor pains, race to the nearest bathroom. They're the babies who land headfirst in the toilet before being stuffed in a sack or wrapped in a blanket and discarded. And they're the byproduct, national experts say, of teens steeped in denial and a society that sends mixed messages about sex." (SUN-SENTINEL) This article focuses on the abandoned baby phenomenon and examines "the general profile of mothers across the nation who've been charged with committing or attempting to commit neonatricide--the killing of a child within the first 24 hours of its life.".Summary: WITH EACH DISCARDED BABY, A HORRIBLE SENSE OF FAILURE -- "One day this winter, a frightened teenager gave birth in a toilet, then wrapped her newborn sone in a trash bag and tossed him over her fackyard fence. That same day, a grove worker stumbled upon the remains of a baby girl in a drainage ditch. A month later, another teen delivered her son in her parents' bathroom, packed his body in her school bookbag with a 10-pound weight, then dropped it in a canal." (PALM BEACH POST) The author searches for clues as to why a growing number of young mothers take the lives of their newborns, and she examines the effectiveness of the Safe Harbor Law, which allows "mothers to leave newborns at hospitals or fire stations, no questions asked.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Teen Pregnancies: Disposing of Babies Mirrors National Trend, April 16, 2001; pp. 1A+.
Originally Published: With Each discarded Baby, a Horrible Sense of Failure, June 3, 2001; pp. 1A+.
TEEN PREGNANCIES: DISPOSING OF BABIES MIRRORS NATIONAL TREND -- "They're called porcelain deliveries. They're the babies born to panicky teenagers who, alone and suffering acute labor pains, race to the nearest bathroom. They're the babies who land headfirst in the toilet before being stuffed in a sack or wrapped in a blanket and discarded. And they're the byproduct, national experts say, of teens steeped in denial and a society that sends mixed messages about sex." (SUN-SENTINEL) This article focuses on the abandoned baby phenomenon and examines "the general profile of mothers across the nation who've been charged with committing or attempting to commit neonatricide--the killing of a child within the first 24 hours of its life.".
WITH EACH DISCARDED BABY, A HORRIBLE SENSE OF FAILURE -- "One day this winter, a frightened teenager gave birth in a toilet, then wrapped her newborn sone in a trash bag and tossed him over her fackyard fence. That same day, a grove worker stumbled upon the remains of a baby girl in a drainage ditch. A month later, another teen delivered her son in her parents' bathroom, packed his body in her school bookbag with a 10-pound weight, then dropped it in a canal." (PALM BEACH POST) The author searches for clues as to why a growing number of young mothers take the lives of their newborns, and she examines the effectiveness of the Safe Harbor Law, which allows "mothers to leave newborns at hospitals or fire stations, no questions asked.".
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