This Danny fellow ruined a perfectly good Libertarian experiment. Couldn't he tell that infant was on the verge of true self-sufficient Randian perfection? Stop codling these babies with "shelter", "food", and your weak willed Leftist love and eventually we will have a perfect society.
Wow! It's like the start of a fairy tale. I hope this doesn't mean that a dragon will plague New York in sixteen years. And that this kid grows up safe and sound in a loving household. (Sorry, but Oscar Pistorius taught me to be skeptical of happy stories, darn murdering sonovah...)
All right Dan. Tell us the truth. How many tissues did you go through? Good thing you warned me in advance. Thanks for sharing. That was a wonderful story.
Gaw. I teared up a lil' too. That judge seems like a real mensch (womensch?). I wish there were more judges out there willing to use their power to cut through red tape like that.
I'm crying for all the baby ACEs who got stuck in crap foster homes or worse. Same sex marriage will be the saving grace for tens of thousands of kids.
What good fortune that this came up before one of the very few judges with good intuition and a benign character. And I'm glad that the boy seems to have turned out well.
I must be the only nerd who hears "baby found in subway station" and whose brain immediately goes to "The Importance of Being Earnest." Black sweatshirt/black handbag....
But isn't this a case of "judge pulls a decision out of her ass without knowing a goddamned thing about the people she was handing a baby over to and, thank god, it worked out but it sure as hell was luck rather than good planning?"
The judge "on a hunch" (so far as we're told) handed a baby over to just some guy who found him in the subway. That's it. Next to zero checks into the prospective parent(s). That it turned out well is a touching story. That it happened that way is insane and an indictment of the judge. The LW might have been another Joel Steinberg for all she knew, or cared.
@43 I agree that the decision and process seem rushed, but from the text it seems that even though they were handed the child pretty much right away they were still under supervision for a long while before the actual adoption. If they had proved to be unfit parents the child would surely have been removed.
No tears from me (does that mean I'm an unfeeling, empty soul?), but knowing what the outcome was probably going to be, I kept thinking, "This is how families are made."
And Dad wrote a screenplay about it? This is one of those stories that, if someone had pulled it out of his or her imagination, a studio's response would have been, "Oh, come on. That is just too damn perfect to be realistic. People will roll their eyes at the sentimentality."
Fortunately for Kevin and his dads, real life doesn't have to be pre-screened for excessive sentimentality.
And can someone please remind me exactly how having two dads (or two moms) is supposed to be harmful for a child?
I'm supposed to meet friends in a few minutes and now I've got to pull myself togeher.
Amirite?!
Too bad Danny couldn't have found a baby.
Would have saved him some major coin......
Reading the story and comments wouldn't have been complete without seeing something from you. You're like my favorote cranky uncle. Hugs.
In all seriousness, beautiful story.
But isn't this a case of "judge pulls a decision out of her ass without knowing a goddamned thing about the people she was handing a baby over to and, thank god, it worked out but it sure as hell was luck rather than good planning?"
The judge "on a hunch" (so far as we're told) handed a baby over to just some guy who found him in the subway. That's it. Next to zero checks into the prospective parent(s). That it turned out well is a touching story. That it happened that way is insane and an indictment of the judge. The LW might have been another Joel Steinberg for all she knew, or cared.
Joel Steinberg
And Dad wrote a screenplay about it? This is one of those stories that, if someone had pulled it out of his or her imagination, a studio's response would have been, "Oh, come on. That is just too damn perfect to be realistic. People will roll their eyes at the sentimentality."
Fortunately for Kevin and his dads, real life doesn't have to be pre-screened for excessive sentimentality.