Woman arrested for letting newborn baby die at home says she was pessimistic about future

she was pessimistic about future

Sounds like majority of Japanese people.

@/dev/random

Sounds like @sakurasuki has been here a long long time. Their sentiments are depressing but completely true.

The story is about a needless, senseless death of a baby.

It' not an opportunity for posters to take cheap shots at each other.

Have people lost their humanity ?

Sounds like majority of Japanese people.

A large portion for sure.

Awful for everyone involved. That poor girl, that poor child! To be in a position of such extreme fear, to not feel like she could not reach out to anyone, including her parents, the male partner, or even the medical services- she must have been in a terrible, frightening place.

Then the girl's mother- whatever flaws she may or may not have had as parent- that discovery of a dead baby (her grandchild!) and then having to pick up the phone to call the police on her own child is a real-life nightmare scenario.

What a sad story. It's so extreme that certain posters forget that this article is about real people in the most awful of situations.

Japanese governments the national, prefectural and local levels need to do a much better job of publicising the availability of adoption services. There are loads of couples who can't have kids of their own lining up to adopt a child, with demand far exceeding supply. That would go a long way to alleviating the tragedy of cases like this.

Only after becoming a father myself I realized there is absolutely no fate worse to a human being than being born and raised without a father. A million bad things are prone to happen in fatherless homes, from crime to drug abuse, incarceration, no motivation or guidance at all, an entire unregulated life of pain without even knowing what's good or bad, a life where very few manage to escape as statistics dont lie.

In worst scenarios, you're murdered before even having a chance in life. RIP.

Several generations ago , a child born out of wedlock wouldn’t have been much of a problem.

Now, with most Japanese living in small apartments, another person to place somewhere is a problem.

Add the cost of living into the equation and this is what can happen…

What about the 'father'??????

This poor young woman was placed in an awful position, a newly born child with no help from the father, unable to confide in her parents and with Zero future. As a young female of 24yrs old, I woud feel only desperate futility in a similar situation, but I woud not go to the lengths she did, but then, I do not live in Japan, and have wonderful caring parents.

Sadly, I feel for the woman and the baby.

At 22 years young and nowhere to go.

There should be some Help Centers for people feeling totally out of luck and no light at the end of the tunnel.

RIP the baby.

We know nothing about her real life.

Many single women just live a material life, without any care in the world outside having fun (prostitution is not a limited issue in Japan).

Morning pills or just birth control pills or IUD are also expansive and hard to get so no wonder such things happen.

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