OMAHA — The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here.
By Sept. 23, two more boys and one girl, ages 11 to 14, had been abandoned in hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln. Then a 15-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl were left.
The biggest shock to public officials came last week, when a single father walked into an Omaha hospital and surrendered nine of his 10 children, ages 1 to 17, saying that his wife had died and he could no longer cope with the burden of raising them. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/us/02omaha.html
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I saw this too. Having three children of my own, I cannot imagine abandoning them, no matter how difficult things got. Perhaps, if that's the kind of father he is, they're better off, but I just can't imagine.
I wonder how often child abandonment happened during the "Great Depression". I wonder what we will see in the coming days if the days are bleak.
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