Comments on: Couple regrets selling baby to buy new mobile phone

By: Tony M

Tony M — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:12:00 +0000

Is there an app for that?

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:35:47 +0000

I suppose you have to feel for them, they must have been in quite a fix to give up their baby for money. And if they’re regretting it now, then that’ll plague them both for the rest of their lives.

LC x

By: TheMindFantastic

TheMindFantastic — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:24:55 +0000

Hmmm you sell a baby, and use the money to buy a fancy phone. Putting aside the fact they sold a baby… but if your that hurting in the finances department you sell something, wouldn’t you like BUY something important with it? Like I dunno FOOD?!?! Unless they live in state funded housing maybe RENT!?!? At least that would make some sense. But a freaking PHONE!?!? Dudes we have to figure out the priorities. However XKCD this past Friday shows how babies aren’t that hard to get a hold of. http://xkcd.com/674/

By: Ashley Landis

Ashley Landis — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:05:31 +0000

People never cease to amaze me. It sorta makes you wonder wiath even how bad it is here, some people have it much much worse.

By: Nopke

Nopke — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:59:34 +0000

Too bad you can’t castrate/sterilize them till they are a bit more mature …

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:50:26 +0000

At the very least, they didn’t sell the baby with the intention of buying a mobile – they just thought they couldn’t look after it. (And they were probably right.) But introducing money in to anything always adds a touch of seediness. If they knew they couldn’t take care of their baby, they should have made sure it was given to someone who would take care of it, not just sold it at the first opportunity they got to a guy who was apparently going to sell the poor thing on, like a piece of furniture! Or better yet, they could have used birth control! How about that?!

By: jo

jo — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:43:23 +0000

although indisputably wrong, provincial law in some areas of china states that parents of children born out of wedlock can be fined and in some provinces it is illegal to have a child outside of marriage. parents are sometimes forced to sell their children as a result of not being able to pay the fines, and a minority are forced by authorities to sell ‘illegitimate’ children. a similar offence with comparable consequences is breaking the one child policy without applying and paying for a licence to do so. i do not mean to generalise or be sensationalist, i am not saying this is commonplace, but it does happen. this case does seem quite extraordinary, but equally sad and perhaps not as clear-cut as it has been reported.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:33:38 +0000

Remember, an iPhone is for life, not just for Christmas, unlike a baby!

By: Madison

Madison — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:21:02 +0000

Are you sure they didn’t swap it for a Westlife CD, a la Vicky Pollard?

By: Vince M Hudd

Vince M Hudd — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:17:23 +0000

Despite what the headline says, reading the article makes it clear they did *not* sell the baby for a phone. That just happens to be what the child’s father used the money to buy.

It’s all still so, so wrong on many levels – but questionable headlines give a questionable impression. The headline reads as though he wanted the phone, so sold the baby in order to get it, which is incredibly screwed up and a far cry from the truth (which is also screwed up, but less so) – that the couple didn’t think they could afford to keep the baby, so chose to sell it.