Would you do it immediately? Or would you wait until people started asking questions? Would you move to avoid being questioned? This is a question that came up in the game Scrupples.
2006-10-24 04:30:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
Ok calm down it was question in a game of Scrupples people! Let me clarify I am speaking of an infant that has clearly been abandoned by it's mother. Maybe there is a note telling you she doesn't want the baby or something to that effect.
2006-10-24 19:39:51 · update #1
I have wanted this to happen to me also! I would watch the news intensely looking for a report of an abandoned or missing infant of probably some teen or young woman! Make excuses not to go to work. I'd hold onto the child. Especially if it was left at my home or vehicle or I wondered across it unwitnessed. If there was any chance that the child looked like me or shared ethnicity I would never say a word and eventually apply for a birth certificate and SSN saying it was a home birth. To avoid suspicion I would move as soon as I could to a new community where no one knew me, or if I had adopted or if I had been pregnant or not. Regardless if the child and my ethnicity did not match. At some point I might return after enough time had passed to say I had adopted or given birth while away. I would uphold that lie for years if necessary. If a time came when genetics were in question I'd get a lawyer and make up some new story of a housemate that left the child with me and never returned. There is no way I would turn an innocent infant over into the social service systems to get forgotten, abused or Lord knows what! Heck I still worry about my dog's pups 14 years later!
2006-10-24 21:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by wacoastalgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would immediately take the baby to the authorities but let them know that I would be more than willing to care for the child until the parents were found and/or adopt the child.
2006-10-24 11:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by starringsarahas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is silly. Of course you would report the abandoned child. You have no choice. You cannot make up social security numbers or birth certificates. You have to adopt the child legally. What if the child was abducted? Would you not want the mother to know that her child was alive? You would have to notify authorities.
2006-10-24 11:41:04 · answer #3 · answered by Mrs. Jackson 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Notify authorities, but volunteer to care for the child until the real mother is found.
2006-10-24 11:35:01 · answer #4 · answered by tampico 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would turn it in to authorities immediately,for one reason there was a crime committed and another reason is if the child needed medical attention you wouldn't be able to do that if you weren't the parent or guardian.
2006-10-24 11:32:33 · answer #5 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should turn the child in immediately. Afterall, the child needs more cares since its' mother has abandomed this child--which means no one takes care of this child at all, even it happened in a game.
2006-10-25 02:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I might keep him but only after hiding his ship in the barn... I'd have to tell him not to show off his speed and strength to the other kids so that the nasty government people won't come and take him away... I'd ask Lionel to help me draw up the necessary papers....
2006-10-24 11:39:11 · answer #7 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course I would turn the child in immediately.
2006-10-24 11:31:54 · answer #8 · answered by Tiger by the Tail 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would go to the authorities ASAP because this child might need some medical attention that you are not aware of
2006-10-24 11:32:36 · answer #9 · answered by lwaite74 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would give up the infant. It belongs with its true mother.
2006-10-24 11:38:11 · answer #10 · answered by horselover 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋