It’s no secret that Monica Kelsey, CEO/Founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, knows the identity of some of the “anonymous” mothers manipulated into dropping their babies into her money-maker boxes. She’s mentioned publicly that they contact her post-boxing to check on the welfare of their babies and later just to shoot the chat. According to her, one box mother volunteers for the organization and makes appearances at public events.
Sorry, Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc: Box-Dumping Your Baby is Not a Family Affair!
Even the most cursory observer of the SH movement, especially the box movement, knows that abandonment boxes are marketed to and used by single mothers “in crisis,” who for whatever reason–and often manipulated– believe that they have no other choice than to anona-dump their newborns. Baby boxes are baby-hiding machines. Most often the father is out of the decision-making process, ignored or ignorant of the pregnancy and birth. Their rights, along with the rights of the baby, are tossed in the dumpster, to compose a fairytale ending to a family tragedy.