Oh dear! Monica Kelsey, CEO and founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, was “forced” to cancel a baby box contract in Texas because the unnamed hospital, for whatever reason, wanted a camera on the box!
Safe Haven Baby Boxes is All about Anonymity, Privacy, and Confidentiality—Except When They’re Not!
In the parlance of adoptee experience, this is adoption mindfuck at its dirtiest. A neat linguistic and psychological trick that forces adoptees to internalize the adoption lie and never to question adoption–and in the baby box case, the acquisition process. Issues of abandonment, shame, self-worth, depression, suicidal ideation, and self-loathing are the throughline of the adoptee experience. The baby box narrative with its contradictory mother-child message and celebration of abandonment and anonymity moves the bar even lower if that is possible.