Refusing children is a moral crime. Parents, regardless of their social status and education, do this for several reasons that for others are not a reason to leave their child in a maternity hospital.
How does this happen
Pregnancy today most often becomes an event that is planned in the same way as buying an apartment or car. And this aspect is rather negatively reflected in the morality of young mothers, who consider it possible to leave an unwanted child in a maternity hospital in the care of the state.
There is no legislative article or provision on the abandonment of the child - there is only a deprivation of parental rights for many reasons. However, parents whose child is doomed to exist in a boarding school most often write consent to adoption. Mom is discharged from the hospital, and the child is transferred to the Baby House. Parents have six months to think about when they can take their baby home.
The reasons for filling out a child’s refusal in the maternity hospital are mainly the material and social disadvantage of the parents, the presence of an incurable disease in the child, the fear of the young mother that she may be punished for having an illegitimate child, and many others.
In the event that the parents do not pick up the child from the Baby House for six months, they are deprived of their parental rights in court. However, such people, deprived of rights in relation to one child, can quite safely after some time give birth to another and bring up in the family.
There are not only “abandoned”, but also abandoned children in the hospital, who were left without statements and documents. Moms of these kids just run away from the hospital literally in a bathrobe and slippers. The employees of the maternity hospital, and then the Baby House, give the child a name, patronymic and last name, issue a birth certificate and inform the guardianship authorities about this fact.
Failure due to lack of funds
Dysfunctional parents do not always abandon the baby due to emotional immaturity or degradation. Some simply have nothing to support the child, and they, desiring for him a better future, are forced to take this step. Within six months, if there is hope for the help of relatives or the state in raising a child, parents take him home.
Return the baby to the family can not only the mother, but also the father of the child, as well as grandparents, who, by law, become the guardians of the child. Mom and Dad, despite the deprivation of parental rights, are required to participate in the upbringing of the child and to pay child support.
Failure due to the presence of the disease in the baby
In the presence of a serious illness, the abandonment of the child in the hospital occurs with the same frequency as the abandonment of dysfunctional parents. Doctors often themselves contribute to this by persuading mom at the stage of pregnancy, when it is already possible to diagnose the disease, or after childbirth, leave the baby. Doctors motivate this by the fact that it is very difficult to raise a sick child, you will have to give up a lot in favor of the baby and spend some money on medications and doctors.
Leaving the child in the hospital, many parents doubt whether they did the right thing. For such people, six months is the period during which the understanding of the act, the meaning of the child in their life and the return of the baby to the family take place. Famous people who not only take care of their sick children, but also take disabled people from orphanages, become an example of the fact that one can cope with the disease, or one can live with it.
Failure due to prejudice
To date, the abandonment of the child in the hospital due to the fear of a young mother that her parents will not accept the baby is not the most frequent. Now and then single mothers appear for whom benefits and allowances are provided. Even during pregnancy, young girls choose a baby, not an abortion. A few decades ago, the birth of a child in an unmarried woman caused a resonance in society, so there were much more “refuseniks” for these reasons.
Incredibly, documenting the abandonment of the baby is much easier than, for example, alienation of property. Meanwhile, transferring a small life into the wrong hands is a huge responsibility. The procedure may be different - both an application for consent to adoption, and targeted rejection. This means that parents issue consent for adoption by someone specifically. In this case, two processes legally occur - deprivation of parental rights and registration of adoption (guardianship).
Statements by the mother and father of the child
The mother who draws up the abandonment of the child in the hospital must write a statement. It indicates the state body to which the document will be sent, the data of the mother and child, confirmation of receiving a warning about the impossibility of the reverse process, a request to consider the matter in court without her participation, as well as the date and signature. This statement is certified by the head of the institution where the mother and baby are, and sent, along with other documents for the child, to the guardianship authority.
The refusal of the father from the baby occurs a little differently. A waiver application is written at a notary public, where you can also get a form for such a document, which is then certified. Deprivation of the parental rights of the father in relation to the child (as well as the mother) occurs through the court.
If giving birth without documents
When contacting a medical institution, you need to bring your passport with you, since according to your mother’s words, you don’t enter your birth certificate in your birth certificate. However, the arrival of a woman in labor without documents may indicate that she did not have documents at all, or that she lost them, so the woman is placed just in case in the infectious maternity ward. Doctors have no right to leave a child in a maternity hospital without a mother only on the grounds that there is no passport. This document can be replaced by a certificate from the passport office confirming the replacement of an identity card, or a police certificate of search. The baby can be registered within a month after birth, so basically there are no problems.
Abandonment of a child by a mother without a passport
If a woman gave birth to a child without any documents, in fact she is not legally attached to him, so she has the opportunity to leave the walls of the maternity ward without issuing a refusal. In this case, the child will have dashes in the columns “mother” and “father”, the child will be immediately sent to the Baby House, and he may be adopted without a six-month period. Newborn children in the hospital (photos of some of them are posted below) are waiting for their parents until the established examination time has passed. After that, as soon as the decision on recognizing the baby as an orphan is officially ready, parents, if they think better of it, cannot take the child home just like that - you must write a statement, wait a certain period, provide documents (including a passport that was not present during childbirth ) and go through other procedures provided for in these cases.
Rejection of a doctor
In practice, one can also find home birth, which is not a reason for refusing to register a child or to recognize him as an orphan. Registration birth certificates happens the same way as at birth in the hospital, only with the difference that a written or oral statement by the person who was present at the birth that this woman was born was born.
Refusal of hospitalization in the hospital can occur not only at the request of the woman, but also by mistake of doctors.Despite the existing law that a person who has an MHI policy can be served in any free medical institution for emergency reasons, the doctor may refuse hospitalization, explaining that the woman did not come by registration and must be served by a hospital in another district.
Deprivation of parental rights
In judicial practice, it is customary, when considering cases six months after a rejection application (consent to adoption), to summon the parents to a court session, if it is not indicated that it can happen in the absence of the applicants. Thus, it is supposed to resolve the issue of protecting the rights of the child and parents, having recognized the possibility of picking up the baby from a state institution even after 6 months in court.
However, it is believed that the woman who abandoned the child in the hospital and wrote “refused” already had the opportunity to change her mind, and the court is deciding whether the parental rights are deprived of their legal rights. In fact, parents, when writing the application, renounced their rights in relation to the child. During the time given for reflection, you can correct the financial situation, which could become an obstacle, solve the problem of treating the child, if the cause of the failure was an incurable disease, and many other problems.
The moral side of abandoning a child
There is no article in the legislation on the abandonment of a child, however, many lawyers consider it necessary to make the Family Code responsible for both abandoning a newborn in the hospital and refusing an already adopted baby. Moral issues in terms of returning the child back if he "did not like him" are very acute, since, according to the law, adoptive parents can do this for a certain time. It should be remembered that a child is not a thing that can be returned to the store. This is a living human soul, which suffers from the fact that it does not have family people who could take care of it and give a piece of its warmth.
