n January 16, 2024. the baby box company filed suit in Federal Court against the Miami-based traditional safe haven advocacy organization A Safe Haven for Newborns/Gloria Silverio Foundation, its founder and director Nick Silverio, the South Trail Fire Rescue District, and Amy Bollen, its public relations director, accursing them of slander, defamation, and “tortuous interference with contract or business.”…We are therefore dedicating a page to lawsuit coverage. It will include documents, news articles, commentary, and other material related to the case
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Baby Boxes in the U.S.
Information about laws, statistics, issues, and locations of baby boxes across the United States. Click on a state for more information.
US Baby Box Map
KEY: Boxes • No Boxes(but law allows them)
Current State Legislation
Current legislation related to safe haven baby boxes in the United States, including bills to authorize installation of the devices.
US Legislation 2024
KEY: Active • Enacted • Dead/In Limbo
Featured Essays and Resources
Why is Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc So Afraid of Adoptees?
Class Bastard—the Adopted—to the minds of the baby box tycoonery poses some kind of existential threat to their evangelical stampede through America to normalize baby-abandonment-by-box-in-the-wall.
Sex Outside of Marriage? You’re a Piece of Chewed Up Gum that Nobody Wants. A Message from Pam Stenzel, Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline Coordinator/Counselor
Her bottom line preached for three decades: if you have sex outside of marriage you will pay for it for the rest of your life, physically mentally, and emotionally…he compared teen girls who had had sex to a nasty piece of chewed-up gum and an old shoe. Who would want them? Twenty years later it’s still her message.
Abortion, Adoption, Safe Havens, and Reproductive Justice
It’s all theater. For baby box pushers, adoptees and “desperate mothers” are nothing more than dehumanized props used to create a utopian abortion-free world.
What Critics Say About Baby Boxes
Baby Boxes do not empower women and certainly not their abandoned children as they grow up. They trivialize pregnancy, commodify babies, and maintain adoption secrets and lies.
Latest News and Information
Kentucky Lawmakers Force Public Schools to Advertise Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline
The state, however, has no business posting and encouraging minors to contact a privately operated million-dollar corporation/Christian ministry that manufactures and leases Safe Haven BabyBoxes to discuss their teen callers’ pregnancies and “alternatives” to safe standard pregnancy care, delivery, and aftercare–standards that reject concealment of pregnancy and birth and how to legally and anonymously dispose of their newborns via their Safe Haven Baby Box program
Tennessee Safe Haven Baby Box Advocates Offer Dumbest Reasons Yet for Boxes
I’ve read some pretty obtuse discussions on Safe Haven Baby Box need and efficacy, but Sullivan County, Tennessee, wins the Blue Ribbon. A place where alleged mean girl gossip and unresolved personal issues of smalltown politicians force the passage of absurd and harmful public policy decisions.
No, I Wasn’t in Jail: My Unplanned SSHBBN Vacation
I planned originally to call this blog “Commies Gave Me Covid” since through the entire march no matter where I was situated in the mob there was a communist drum corps non-stop beating their drums and chanting, something like, “We want Revolution. Communism is the Solution.” I’m sure Gazans appreciated the sentiment. Not! I
Review. Baby Boxes: the Reality Show, Episode 1: An Evening of Narcissism and Bathroom “Humor” But Where’s the Babies?
The piece de resistance was reserved for JJ Steinmetz whose bathroom habits (as I predicted), were discussed at length ending in an “argument” about who clogged the office toilet more–JJ or Mrs Kelsey–and the number of flushes required to get it all down the drain.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc YouTube Series Debuts August 6. Making Baby Abandonment Entertaining for Fun and Profit
Just when we think that Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc’s exploitation, commodification, and commercialization of boxed and abandoned newborns and the so-called dangerous plight of “desperate mothers” can’t get any worse, along comes “Baby Boxes” Season 1. The YouTube streaming 7-episode “reality series” stars peripatetic SHBB Inc founder/ CEO Monica Kelsey and her band of merry baby boxers. Guest appearances of “saved” infants and their new forever families bearing witness to the success of Mrs. Kelsey’s self-esteem-raising project aka “Purpose through Pain,” are included. And think of the monetization possibilities!
Angelika’s Corner
No! Hundreds of Babies Have NOT Been “Saved” in Safe Haven Baby Boxes in Indiana
MEOW!!!!! Even disregarding the disputable “saved” narrative, the idea of hundreds of Indiana babies captured by Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc is an out-of-and-out lie that demands retraction.
Jasper, Alabama: Baby Box Needed for Homeless Moms
Several times a month I read Safe Haven Baby Box proponents declare in the news that boxes and anonymous legal abandonment are needed by “the homeless.” What the hell? Is baby abandonment –and yes, that is exactly what safe haven baby boxes promote despite the nicey-nice claim that it’s not abandonment since boxed babies are “placed into ‘loving hands'” or some such drivel–a boostrap for the homeless? I think not. It’s a boot in the head.
Is Normal Adoption Relinquishment Legal in Texas?
Two weeks ago I wrote a short piece about confusing headlines (and news stories) that suggest to the uninformed that traditional safe haven laws and baby boxes are the only way a parent can relinquish a child for adoption…We got the same rubbish during today’s baby box blessing in Lubbock, Texas.
Misleading Headlines about Safe Haven Laws
To make it worse, the article fails to mention normal adoption practices, as if safe haven abandonment is the only way adoptions can be done.
If I Were a Drinking Cat…Albion, Indiana Safe Haven Baby Box Wackery
Apparently, until April 16, 2024, those in “crisis” pregnancy or birth situations in Albion found themselves in a social services desert where public and private social and legal services, such as housing assistance, baby and mother assistance, Medicaid, WIC, SNAP, and mental health and family counseling — including family preservation options and genuine adoption planning– didn’t exist. Where the only remedy for an inconvenient baby was ditch–dumping and neonaticide.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc to Politico: “No Comment”
“No comment” means that Mrs. Kelsey, who brags on social media of her personal and the company’s business “transparency,” doesn’t want anyone digging deeper into her baby box business. That her baby box enterprise set-up is horizontal–that it not only manufactures the boxes but manufactures the moral panic that manufactures lawmakers’ and the public’s enthusiasm to install the boxes that are seldom used to remedy a manufactured epidemic (discarded newborns) that doesn’t exist.
Scenes from the Asylum
Anonymity Matters, Adoptees Don’t: A Short Rant on Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Images
Does this image make you sick to your stomach, grind your teeth, go for the nearest ax handle?
Safe Haven Baby Boxes = Prosperity???
How in the world does a baby abandonment box “reinforce community prosperity,” unless one is crass enough to suggest that local Poors donate their newborns to local Privilegeds in order to create a higher economic lifestyle for themselves? (It’s not like we haven’t heard that one before!
Would You Box Your Your Baby with This Person? Part 2
By the end of the evening, SHBB Inc had gotten over 1 million followers on TikTok, which says something about the rotting of the American mind. Here is Mrs. Kelsey’s reaction to breaking 1 million and that rot.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Reminds Us Again: Adoptees Don’t Matter. A Disjointed Diatribe
In other words, (we already know this!) boxed babies, and by extension, adopted people, aren’t part of the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc equation and plan other than to serve as window dressing. We are things to be dealt with, to be fixed, to be objectified and fetishized, and then shuffled off to Buffalo reborn invisible and silent. The baby box gangbangers clearly put a lot of work into making us look irrelevant
Safe Haven Baby Boxes’ Monica Kelsey: F-Bombing One F at a Time
My favorite Kelsey throwaway is “I love Jesus, but I like to cuss.” Her truism is emblazoned on selected SHBB Inc merch including fund-raising tumblers. It’s amusing since at about the same frequency as her “cussing” she reminds us that she is doing God’s work and that Jesus walks beside her. She has regular convos with both.
Gotcha! Safe Haven Baby Box Happy Dance
What kind of person orchestrates and celebrates the destruction of a family and the stripping away of a soon- to-be-adopted newborn of her identity, history, family, and civil rights?