Posted on 05/05/2016 1:26:13 PM PDT by Morgana
I think yours is not a bad idea, but I do think that all volunteers for such a program should undergo background checks and training for the proper care of an infant/small child.
We’ve had that here in Jersey for years.
My Aunt Nancy worked here http://www.nailhed.com/2014/05/the-salvation-booth.html,
A Methodist named William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London to win the masses of the poor and the sinful to the side of Christ by succoring and ministering to them. He brought the movement to the United States in 1880, and hence many of their hospitals were named for him, such as the Booth Memorial Home and Hospital of the Salvation Army at 130 W. Grand Boulevard. So this hospital was in fact not named after the prominent Detroiter George Gough Booth, as I had originally thought.
It started as a 20-bed maternity hospital for unwed mothers who could not afford the cost of a regular hospital stay. Regular hospitals also often turned away such women in those days. When Chad and I briefly checked it out in early 2006 it had been closed for some time, and it was demolished soon after. Today it is a blank gravel lot.
She’s now gone too.
It’s all gone.
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