It was a very cold quiet night in Detroit. A young mother put her newborn baby wrapped in a towel in a shoe box and left it on a door step. You have to assume she was hoping someone would find it and give that baby a better life.

 

We also assume most girls know you can now take a baby to any hospital or police station and drop it off. Much safer then a door step. I guess baby education is an ongoing thing. Every few years there are a new batch of young ladies who need to learn, need to be educated about having babies.

 

Luckily someone did find that little baby. It looks like it will be OK and now is in the system. I wonder now how long before that baby finds a home?

 

Angelina Jolie went to Cambodia to adopted a kid. I have heard stories of people going to Russia and Veitnam to adopt babies becasue there are so many people looking to adopt. But I wonder if so many people want to adopt how come so many kids need homes?

 

Bonnie Sanders lives in Farmington. Six months ago her daughter was murdered, leaving three babies looking for a home. I understand Social Services is probably busy and it takes time to investigate potential parents. They need to make sure potential parents can provide a clean safe home for three young kids. But six months into the process these kids should have a home. If there are truly eligible people looking to adopt there needs to be a way, maybe a better way, to connect kids to families faster. 

 

If there are no eligible people looking for kids, we need to reeducate the public. Because I think we believe there are a lot of people looking to adopt.

 

People need people. Kids need moms. In a study from the journal of Psychological Science they found married women under extreme stress who reach out and hold their husbands' hands feel immediate relief. Neuroscientists have found in what they say is the first study of how human touch affects the neural response to extreme situations. The soothing effect of the touch could be seen in scans of areas deep in the brain that are involved in registering emotional and physical alarm. The women received significantly more relief from their husbands' touch then from a stranger's, and those in particularly close marriages were most deeply comforted by their husbands' hands.

 

I heard a story about Carlo and Catherine Tuzzolino a loving couple who passed away two hours apart. Carlo Tuzzolino 93 died of a stroke. Two hours later, before relatives had a chance to tell Catherine Tuzzolino of her husband's death, she died of complications form a fall. She was 90. The couple died the day before the anniversary of their meeting 72 years earlier. Two loving inseparable people who spent their life together.