Unwanted

So the baby hatch worked. Someone has finally dropped off a child in the controversial baby hatch in the Japanese hospital at Kumamoto.

On the one hand, I believe it is better for a baby to live, given away hopefully to foster parents who can love him and give him a better life. Far better an option than abortion. Still, the heart aches to think of a baby being given up, lacking the love of his natural parents.

But the baby who is left in the hatch is not a baby but a child. A boy of 3 to 4 years of age. Owain's age.

I cannot comprehend how someone can just abandon his child like this. Apparently the father had dropped him off at the hatch. This was not a newborn, but a child who has forged a bond, learned to trust and to love.

I think of Owain, so bright, so vocal, so aware. A child of 3 or 4 years must be able to talk, think, certainly feel love and rejection. What will this do to the child? My heart just goes out to him.

Going home tonight to hug my son. Hoping someone at that Catholic hospital far away in Kumamoto will hug that little boy too.