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An adoptee-centered non-partisan website that serves as an educational source and tool to de-propagandize and deconstruct the Safe Haven Baby Box myth and movement.

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Safe Haven Baby Boxes are dangerous, unethical, anti-family, and anti-adoptee. Here's why.

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.

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KEY: >100 Boxes 25-100 Boxes <25 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.

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KEY: Active • Enacted • Dead/In Limbo

Featured Essays and Resources

WARNING! This Safe Haven Baby Box Inc Video Can Kill!

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Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc runs a deeply dangerous video on its website,* YouTube, and other platforms. This video can kill your daughter, your sister, your best friend, your neighbor- -even you.

This video targets teen girls–but ultimately all women– teaching them it is OK to conceal a pregnancy and medically unassisted birth (apparently nearly stress- and mess- free) and then dispose of the evidence by popping the baby in the company’s magic box-in-the-wall-baby- erasing machine. You can walk away safe, healthy and carefree. No one will ever know you had this baby

A Documentary Collection: Safe Haven Baby Boxes v A Safe Place for Newborns. A Scorched Earth Lawsuit

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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

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

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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.

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Dystopian San Antonio: Anonymously Dumping Your Baby in a Box-in-the-Wall Promotes Social Justice?

Seriously! Can you imagine sitting in jail, pregnant, and being lectured on how to abandon your baby and why should do it? Will migrants waiting to be kicked out of the country momentarily be encouraged to box their “anchor babies” that Texas and US governments so abhor? One never knows in our Abbott-Paxton fiefdom. I love SA, but this Safe Haven Baby Box dump on the city is a huge personal disappointment.

We Warned You, Mrs Kelsey: Private Adoption Agencies Would Price Gouge Baby Box Adopters If Given the Chance

Monica Kelsey, Founder/ CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc has backed away (with a cautionary stipulation) from a major provision of SB345 enacted in 2023. The provision authorized as an “option” the instant removal of a SH/SHBB baby from trad SH walk-in or box location into the private adoption spammer with no stop along the way. That is, allowed officials at SH/SBBB locations the “option” to transfer babies directly from their hands to a private adoption agency of their choice–without DCS knowledge of the drop-off–and within hours into the immediate loving arms of their “forever family”

Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now! Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Senate Hearing April 17, 2025

Over 25 years ago Ballot Measure 58 restored the right of all Oregon-born adopted persons to obtain their OBCs without restrictions or conditions. Thousands of Oregon adoptees and their biological families have benefited from that measure. Since then, Oregon had led the nation by passing further legislation to secure openness and transparency in its adoption system, access for the adopted and their biological parents to adoption files and courts records, and to dispel overall adoption shame and hypocrisy of the past and into the future. Oregon is by far the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.

This record and reputation is endangered by HB2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as “newborn safety devices.” A previous bill went nowhere, but HB2901 has already passed the House 50-10 and is now in the Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Health Committee.

A hearing is scheduled for Thursday April 17 at 1:00 PM. We need to kill this monster now.

What Happened to the Crestview, Florida, Baby Box?

We noticed a few days ago that the PTB at SHBB Inc said during the Chiefland box opening that this location housed the 6th box in the state. But our records indicate it is #7. We went to the company’s website location map and only 6 are marked.

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FAQ: SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES

All About Baby Boxes

The Safe Haven Baby Box Movement, what's wrong with it, and what's happening today.

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FAQ: STOP BABY BOXES NOW!

What We Are Doing

Who we are, and our opposition to baby boxes.

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FAQ: NEWBORN DISCARD

Infant Abandonment

What is newbord discard, what causes it, and how often does it occur?

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Angelika’s Corner

Safe Haven Baby Box “Surrenders” are “Closed Adoptions!’ Say What?

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Of all the misinformation prevarications, and out-and-out lies that SHBB Inc has propagated about adoption and baby abandonment boxes over the years, the idea that baby boxng is simply a “closed adoption” plan is the greatest. It tells pregnant women and new mothers concerned with adoption privacy issues, as well as the uninformed public, that boxing a baby is a traditional and normal adoption plan

How Dare They! “Mothers of Loss (to Adoption)” Drops Shitbomb on SHBB Inc’s FB page. So Far, Gets Away with It

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…now comes the wonderfully blatant shitbomb dropped by Mothers of Loss (to adoption) a few hours ago, politely camouflaged as a question we all know the answer to. So far it has passed the resident SHBB Inc FB censor. (The SHBB Inc reality show verifies that a staff member vets comments for negativity. ) Maybe she is off on a Thanksgiving holiday.

Baby Box Adoption Surrenders are Dignified?

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What in the world is “dignified” for a mother sneaking around in the middle of the night and sticking a secret baby into a hidy-hole at the fire station and running off? And what kind of dignity does that baby have being ditched, possibly naked (sometimes with a placenta hanging on it or covered in God knows what) with maybe not even a blanket–and certainly no name or history?

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Safe Haven Baby Boxes = Prosperity???

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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!

Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Reminds Us Again: Adoptees Don’t Matter. A Disjointed Diatribe

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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

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