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Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
- wrecked_em 5mo agoA great, beautiful story! :)
- singingwolfboy 5mo agohttps://archive.ph/aE9Xg https://archive.ph/aE9Xg
- kasperni 5mo agoGuardian is not behind a paywall?
- GaProgMan 5mo agoHere in the UK, you have to either pay a subscription fee or accept ALL of their tracking cookies in order to read their articles.
- andrepd 5mo agoIsn't that the choice people on hn claim to want to have? Let me pay for journalism and not be tracked please.
- applfanboysbgon 5mo agoYou 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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- Digit-Al 5mo agoI 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.
- CTOSian 5mo agoOr just toggle JS on their site mate
- kube-system 5mo agoAnd archive.is joins their users into botnets I’ll take the cookies
- em-bee 5mo agogot any reference for that claim?
- kube-system 5mo agoIt has been discussed on HN pretty frequently since it started happening: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/archive-today-allegedly-leads-bizarre-ddos-campaign-against-security-blogger-wikipedia-considers-removing-all-links-to-the-archive https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/archive... Wikipedia has deprecated them as a result
- em-bee 5mo agothere are a lot of sites that do that, especially in germany. and it annoys me to no end because i believe it is actually illegal. at least that's how i understand it. i might be wrong but i believe that tracking cookies must always be optional, paid or not.
- FartyMcFarter 5mo agoEverything 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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- croes 5mo agoWhere does it say the baby was in a dumpster or bin?
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- arethuza 5mo agoPersonally I would be more worried that the woman that had just given birth received the appropriate medical attention and help with whatever circumstances made her feel that she had to abandon her child.
- chistev 5mo agoWhat are those safe ways?
- _bernd 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch
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- globular-toast 5mo agoThis made me want to listen to 2Pac.
- sevenseacat 5mo agoWhat a lovely story, what a lucky family to have found each other!
- wazoox 5mo agoThat's a good heartwarming story to start the weekend :)
- Digit-Al 5mo agoI 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.
- hartator 5mo agoI 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.
- Digit-Al 5mo ago> It can also be the article skipped on these difficulties for a better headline. Thanks for the reply. That is certainly a possibility that I didn't think of. I guess they could possibly have thought that if he was caring enough to take time out of his day to call the police and look after the baby until they arrived that he might potentially make a good parent as well.
- InsideOutSanta 5mo agoYeah, it's a short article. There are obviously lots of things it doesn't go into. I doubt the judge was like "want this baby? Pick it up from the orphanage, here's your receipt."
- Anon84 5mo agoI can’t confirm or deny the Guardian story, but I do personally know someone who found a small baby in a bus in Kenya and preceded to adopt and raise her.
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- throwaway2046 5mo agoInspiring to see the couple accomplish this and in the early 2000s no less. Wishing them all the best. If you haven't already, watch the animated short film[1] by Zombie Studio. It was my introduction to this case before reading the article. [1] https://vimeo.com/1092249009 https://vimeo.com/1092249009
- probably_wrong 5mo agoI just watched the short and I'm not a fan. I understand that they are trying to make a point and the presentation is great, but the way they paint the social worker and the judge (who, based on the story, seem to be a cool dude) feels so far away from the facts as to be entirely made up. Also, the Vimeo web player in Android sucks so much. This is in no way related to the previous point, but I couldn't not bring it up.
- throwaway2046 5mo agoI see what you mean, but ultimately the video shows both the social worker and the judge were on the couple's side, despite the first impression... The social worker was painted as this very bureaucratic person who follows the rules to a tee, while still being sympathetic to the couple's situation. And the judge was painted as the intimidating figure with the final say, who eventually rules in favor of the couple and gives the child a permanent home. I agree with the other commenter who said the story was too good to be true, so the film making some artistic decisions for dramatic effect doesn't sound too bad.
- pilooch 5mo agoReminded me of the recent, and excellent, Canadian tv series Empathy, with the main character is found in a garbage can by his adoptive parents.
- perfmode 5mo ago> Not everything has been easy. When he was a teenager, he had a lot of questions about his birth mother. He wanted to put up posters in the subway, and we would notice him looking at strangers’ faces to see if they looked like him. He’s made peace with the situation now, though. Felt this deeply.
- cloudedcordial 5mo agoPlenty of adopted folks have been curious about birth parents as teens and adults. Not sure elsewhere around the world. In Canada, the adoption records used to be closed but have been gradually. There have been cases that the birth parents did not reply.
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agoHaving gone through the foster parent licensing process in another state I'm shocked at how fast things moved in this case.
- declan_roberts 5mo agoAre you in California?
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agoNo.
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- adwi 5mo agoI insist you listen to them tell it: https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-33-on-the-way-to-dinner/ https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-33-on-the-way-to-dinne...
- brightbeige 5mo agoInteresting. On this page, the one dad is wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. But in a photo on The Guardian article that same dad is wearing a New York Mets hat. I guess people can change after all.
- foozebox 5mo agoWell does Kevin read Hacker News?
- stgo 5mo agoAnywhere but HN, I'd have written this off as clickbait and kept scrolling. Amazing story
- barbs 5mo ago> "Now, Kevin is an incredible young man and we are tremendously proud of him. He works out of state as a software developer" Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN