My daughter was living in an apartment going to nursing school and knew her next door neighbor was a single young man, but had seen one girl visit him that had a baby. One night she was studying and heard her neighbor and some female argueing and then doors slam. After a bit she heard a baby crying, and crying, and realized no one was tending to it since the crying was so loud and she heard no movement next door. She went out her door and the neighbor’s door was wide open and she could see in the apartment the baby strapped in a car seat crying it’s heart out. My daughter went in and yelled, no adults there- she found the diaper bag and took the baby out of the seat and changed it and got it a bottle she found; then called me for advice. I told her to call the police ASAP- The police came and while they were questioning everyone nearby the single man that lived there returned. He said he left when he and the girl were fighting and had no idea she would leave the baby or where she went. The mother did return and claimed she left the baby to try to go find the man- oh what a mess- but police did get child protective services to get the baby. The landlady was so mad she evicted the young man- told him if he would even date someone that sorry she didn’t want him for a rentor. I understood why my daughter entered that apt to care for the baby, and in truth I would likely have done the same but I worried so much that it would cause her problems- luckily it didn’t. Some people are just no part parents.
Those kind of people scare me, too, for the same reasons.
They’ll neglect their children, but blame everyone else if something happens to the child, engage in attention getting behavior at the expense of responsible people...