We Found Our Son in the Subway
Renews faith in humanity. This belongs on HN, because it really does point out the humanity that we all want to touch with our development. These are real people, with real issues, with real emotions, and each one of them may be a user of our products, using them to improve their lives, their sons lives, or whatever. Its very important to be able to empathize with people, and be able to know their stories, this is the only way to build great things that people love. You can say that this isn't "technical" or "business" related, it is however very related to human beings and ultimately these "humans" are your business, your source of profitability. If anything, more articles like these should be on HN.
Little more detail from 2004: http://www.parents.com/parenting/adoption/stories/adoption-s...
Sound reasonable to me. That judge is probably a parent. I suspect most parents understand: if we waited to be "ready", nobody would ever be a parent. Conventional parents get months and months of notice. If they're like me, they're still nowhere close to "ready". It's terrifying. But you, and these guys, and everyone else just do what we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years.
This was hard for me to read. I spent four years waiting to adopt a child.Did almost a year of training and home visits, then waited. And waited. Why does it take so long? Because we selfishly insisted that we'd only take one ortwo children. The social workers were not subtle in letting us know that we were selfish to not want a sibling group of 4 or 5(?!) kids all at once. They made it absolutely clear that we could not expect to have a newborn, and a child under 8 was unlikely.
So to hear that, on a hunch, a judge can give a newborn to a couple that had expressed no previous interest in having kids, wtf. It's a nice story, and I'm glad that it worked out so well for everyone. But for me it really underlines how fucked up the system really is.
Good god this has nothing to do with HN.
Good god am I glad that it got to the front page so I read it.
Ugh. This yanked a couple of thug tears outta me.
And for those wondering what place this has on HN, I actually read HN for interesting, often-not-technically-related news.
My grand-father when he was a young 15 years old farmer found a lost kid on an Indian train. After search for his parents for years with no luck. He adopted the lost kid, at the age of 18 he became a father of a 7 year old. Today the little kid is a retried doctor that resides in New Jersey.
Great story. Can someone explain why this belongs on HN?
Love the story.
When we talk about gay marriage and adoption I always need to query a little more, especially about the kids.
What's about Kevin ? His life is "perfectly normal" (how stupid is this expression) ? He is happy ? Does he have problem with his sexuality ?
Do anybody have any experience to share ? Please to be obvious, in neither way...
(Why this is on HN ? Well, because I believe that HN is one of the best community on the internet, it is normal that people want to share stories and ask opinion to other they respect/admire)
That is an amazing story.
Lovely story but what kind of husband offers to adopt a child without even previously discussing it his wife?
Great relationship there. This story turned out well only because of her.
BTW this is why many cities now have a law there is no penalty to leave a newborn at a firestation, yet some cities still resist it.
Pretty hard not to find that touching.
Really heart warming. Also makes me wonder how they handled the financial challenges of raising a child as a young social worker and playwright couple in new york.
Well damn. Now I have to wipe these tears off my keyboard.
Honestly if there was more of a proliferation of this kind of news instead of the constant barrage of negativity and fear that is pushed upon us through mainstream propaganda er... media channels then perhaps we wouldn't need the TSA with their hands up our butts feeling around for shit that isn't there... pun intended.
I'm wondering how many upvoted because they found the article worthwhile versus upvoting because they noticed the author is not a women and that's what's expected. I say this because to me it looks like it's something that's off-topic judging by the guidelines.
What an absolutely beautiful story.
This would never have happened in Kenya where the Children's Act expressly forbids homosexuals from adopting. Sad.
Foundlings are actually fairly common. The only novelty here is that the adoptive individuals are nontraditional.
Good story. Am I the only one who read the title as "We Found Our Son in Subway?" As in the restaurant.
My theory is that one of the reasons nature makes gay people is so that there are extra parents.
What a corny story
Touching story!
Excellent!
Thanks so much for posting this. I hope everyone on HN will take a breather and read this article all the way through.
I don't know why people would say this does not belong here. Social hacking gets so little respect.
Two thumbs up.
It seems to be a fictional story. The author is a playwright and a screenwriter. No last names are given (except the author), and the desire for anonymity is not explicitly stated.
I am surprised the NYT Editor did not ask the author to make it clear if it is a fictional or real story.