"Tis the season to be Jolly"

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So much for Advent and the celebration of the birth of a baby. Yesterday a 14-year old girl threw her newborn baby out of a high rise apartment. The human race does not seem to have much regard for the sanctity of life, either human or animal. It was very sad. Why couldn't she have put it up for adoption?

Surely we've passed the stage of Dotheboy's Hall and the days of the " Homies", when the residents of the Boy's Home in Onehunga were beaten up by their "caretaker". It was bad enough that the "Home" was a jungle for the survival of the fittest. I always felt sorry for them in primary school and only years later that I realised that they weren't all orphans.