Are your prepared to care for a new born baby or a young child if one is left on your door step during Y2K? I did not think about this seriously until recently, when more of these incidents seem to be showing up more frequently.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), January 22, 1999

Answers

bardou---

I have been considering getting some canned Milk, and making sure I have at least one bottle on hand. You never know. ( I read on some y2k site that Formula doesn't last as long) Having a baby around would be a huge responsibilty, however, being a Mom (twice) I know there is no greater joy in the world than nurturing a little one. I don't think I could turn away a baby. I don't want to think about this anymore, I started to realize just how many orphans there could be.

Deborah

P.S. With our track record in regard to the sanctity of human life I can't understand how anyone could doubt if things get bad there will be violence.

-- Deborah the Prophetess (tears@heaven.com), January 23, 1999.

Yeah I've thought about that, but certainly not enough to warrant a posting on a website

I guess the human race made it through Neanderthal times without the web and all this technocrap, and I can venture a clue that they had it a bit rougher than we did

but we're the proof they made it thru, huh

200 years from now the Y2K fear movement will be known as "the total loss of common sense at the end of the 20th century", comparable to the similar event at the year 1000

yep there's computer stuff this time but aren't we a bit smarter? to listen to the doomsday websites one would think that no one now living knows how to start a fire without a match

-- NewDad (worrywart@why.net), January 23, 1999.

In response to Deborha the Prophetess's post script. If a mother and father can take the live of the child within her womb, the track record is established that they have lost a certain amount of respect for human life. When a Y2K situation appears, and things get very bad, how much respect will they have for a human life that has food or other things they want? After all, our life is the same as the child in the wombs life, only in a different stage of development-as is a 90 year old woman compared to a 16 year old. Scares me. Will they reason that the situation demands taking life again?

-- Iamalive (savelife@inwomb.com), January 23, 1999.

bardou ---

As Christians and (it's only incidental) with a wife who is a midwife, the answer is short and simple: yes, we'll care for every baby that comes our way. Period.

Will we advertise this? No. Do I want to? Can't stand the idea. But if people think they can dump their babies with us, though, we'll trust God.

If the baby or child dies, OK. Horrible, but that's "life" which includes death. If we "lose" some of our preparations and die sooner because of this, that's life too. There are lots of ways we might "die sooner" during Y2K, heck, this is just one more.

We would have hidden slaves during the civil war, Jews too during the Holocaust (still will, if life comes back to things like that).

We won't do these things because we're Mama Theresa or noble. Everything about Y2K scares me to death IF I choose to open a certain door and go in that door to look. I won't open that door, now or ever.

There is a story in the Bible about three young Jewish boys who refused to bow down and were thrown in a fiery furnace. Their comment was, "our God can rescue us from the furnace, but if He doesn't? We still aren't going to bow down to you."

Once you stop doing what is right before the Creator, regardless of the consequences, you have bowed down.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), January 23, 1999.

There's only two things I worry about when the worst times hit, that's having to shoot someone (I'll do what I have to do), and caring for a newborn. I guess I'll have to make preparation for that just in case. And I will take care of a newborn if I have to, it's just something that I never thought about until now. I am capable of it, but don't look forward to it.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), January 23, 1999.

Big Dog---

Good point! I guess that's where the rubber meets the road so to speak.

Deborah

-- Deborah the Prophetess (allthings@christ.com), January 23, 1999.

Yes. It could get that bad. Look at Russia and North Korea today.

-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), January 23, 1999.