Tag: Diapers

Desperation

Today, I read this “confession.”

We need to get rid of the stigma of shoplifting food, diapers and necessary items. Corporations steal from us, everyday.

1. If you see someone doing this, you could offer her support. Financial help and/or childcare with some of the restrictions maybe.

2. I am still going through this. I was caught stealing diapers. I have to do 50 hours of community service, take a shoplifting class and pay court fees. I also did a weekend in “jail”.

An adoptee wrote – I see no reason to withhold support from someone trying to survive.

A kinship guardian says – Medicine and food for her kid isn’t reason enough ? Maybe not the best choice but clearly she is desperate.

Another adoptee – Stealing groceries and baby formula is a failure of us as a society, not of the person trying to feed their family and children.

Yet another person – given that (presumably) other avenues have been exhausted: feeding and medicating your sick, hungry child is a good enough excuse/reason to take basic necessities from a mega corporation.

Baby2Baby

I had not heard of this non-profit charity before this morning. In 2006, Karis Jagger, Lee Michel and Marnie Owens, 3 moms in Los Angeles founded Baby2Baby and began the important work of giving back to children in need. As a project of Community Partners which is a fiscal sponsorship program.

As Jennifer Garner wrote regarding the recent celebration of the organization’s 10 anniversary – Moms consider diapers, wipes, hygiene products, warm clothes, car seats— “necessities”— but what happens when families can’t afford these basics, when parents are choosing between diapering and feeding their child?

For ten years Baby2Baby has worked tirelessly to better the lives of families, lightening the load for struggling parents who want desperately to give their children as comfortable and safe a childhood as possible. When basic needs are met, parents have more resources for food and shelter, yes, but just as important—they have more bandwidth to read to, play with, sing to their babies—to enjoy them. For children’s growing brains, connection is where the magic happens.

They are a go to organization for relief across the country, sending trucks of necessities to families impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises. They have an ongoing tally of the good they have done. Currently 200,032,502 donations distributed including diapers, wipes, clothing, cribs, backpacks and more. The Baby2Baby National Network is a group of like-minded organizations who distribute basic essentials to children living in poverty in over 40 cities across the United States. 

Baby2Baby is a mega diaper bank and nonprofit organization providing essential items to children in need across the country. In the last 10 years, Baby2Baby has distributed over 200 million items to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals and underserved schools as well as children who have lost everything in the wake of disaster.

You can learn more about them at their website – https://baby2baby.org/