Abandoned Children
Regarding the April 14 article on the abandoned children, “Cast-Off Babies on the Rise in the County,” why is the Department Children’s Services spending any of its valuable time looking for people who don’t want their children and who have made that quite clear? Go look for some good adoptive parents, and quickly.
Running cute little mug shots of these waifs and pleading for their mothers to reconsider reminds me more of a Hollywood movie of the 1930s than the reality of Los Angeles in the ‘90s. We’re not talking about poor but impeccably dressed Constance Bennett leaving her beloved child with nuns at the convent. We’re talking about abuse, drugs, poverty, foster homes and, possibly, death at an early age. We’re talking about leaving kids in dumpsters.
It’s going to get worse. It’s time to sever parental rights and save these kids.
KATHLEEN R. PERRIER
Los Angeles
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