Moms leaving kids

United States
June 9, 2011 11:33am CST
It seems that more and more often you see or hear about a Mother who just packed up and left the kids. Is it a sign of the times or am I just old fashioned. As a mother I cannot ever imagine leaving my kids and not seeing them again. It would drive me nuts to not have any input in their lives. I know five boys that have been abandoned by three moms [loose term]. These boys werer left for dads or grandparents or the state to take care of. Thank God the Dads stayed and have taken care of the kids but you can still see the fear of abandonment in their lives.
4 responses
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
10 Jun 11
For me it is the reason if the mother not in here mind at all but to realize they come back to settle and wait for the time and prayed to Jehovah God that her heart ache will vain.
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
10 Jun 11
Ouch, this is a very painful subject for me, I myself have been abandoned, by my biological mother (my daddy went missing a few years later) - and I know my biological mother didn't want me because she gave me to Daddy when I was five months old saying that she didn't want anything to do with us, then she married her 2nd daughter's father. Long story there. When my social worker arranged for me to make contact with my biological mother, I was so excited - until she cooly acknowledged me and only "put up with me" for a few years (correspondance by letters and a few visits), but again disowned me after. Later her daughter confessed to me that she never wanted to see me in the first place, and only gave in to encouragement from my social worker and to her daughter's curiosity.
• United States
10 Jun 11
I could never leave my kids ever. I have known people of both sexes who have and I cannot understand it at all. I do not know if it is happening more really as much as the stigmatism of it has worn off and people feel free to discuss these situations as though it is normal. My own mother left me with family members from the time I was 3 until I was 6. I was bounced around between family during this time and I have to say the disconnect between us has never fully healed and as much as I leave it open to I do not think it ever will completely. I went to group counseling for a while and there was many more of us then there should have been. Some where raised by fathers most by grandmothers or aunts. I was not alone and I am sure things like this will always happen and no most of us will never understand.
@ptower76 (1616)
• United States
9 Jun 11
That is one of the most disturbing actions in a society. The sad part is that it has been going on for a long time. I went to pick up my niece at her job (Children's Village) in Dobb's Ferry in Lower New York State and was really saddened by the number of children housed there awaiting the age when they can be released on their own into society. It seems that even with today's Safe Haven laws that allow parents to abandon their children at an authorized location like a hospital, police station, or fire station, a recent case of a child left to die in a garbage bin shows that some people simply do not value life as most do. Of course we know that while the mother's gave birth to them, they were not truly moms if they could actually abandon their children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abandonment