Woman Reveals Sale Of Son On Facebook, Gets Busted

[Baresark]

On the point of selling the baby, it's not really any different than "buying", sorry adopting, a child from another county, (China, Romania whichever). I know people that have done this and these governments are selling the children to desperate parents. Then the parents parents have to pay to get the kid back to parent's country. She just didn't do it legally.
Other than that, the drug addict mother had the sense(?), sure we can use that word, to give up her child that she clearly is incapable of taking care of. I doubt the man is a good guy. I could be wrong. He could be a fabulously wealth man, who never married, a little lonely and thought to give the kid a good life. Doubtful, but in the realm of possibility.
Sorry kid that your life started out so bad.

$15,000 that's it? Seriously, that's it? Wow, if I sold my newborn child it would have to be a stupidly higher amount of money than $15,000. Which she blew at a casino of course.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Haha, I'm with you there. It's ok when a government sells kids, but not ok when a private citizen does it. Love the double standard being represented here.

OT: The situation is utterly stupid. She is not a fit parent, and he may not have been any better (though I am not gonna jump on the bandwagon of people representing the child porn angle). It's a big jump to from "alleged" anything to child porn. I don't think people actually know what the world "alleged" means. It means, declare without proof.

 

[Frankster]

Intelligence is not genetic, it is not inherent.

A bit off topic but just to enlighten you on that: when it comes to intelligence the debate of nurture vs nature is archaic now and seen as naive to think it's either one or the other, it's a combination of both, the question is in what proportion.
I'll spare you a tl dr but if you're interested, this is a big research area and plenty of info on the net, google scholar twin studies in intelligence if you want to skip straight to the actual experiments.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

The fact that there's even a crime called "Dealing in Children" makes me embarrassed to be a human.

i think its more anti-slavery laws than a lot of children on craigslist.
and right now, there's a Barnardo's advert on. not sure if coincidence, or TV can see my computer.

OT:

i mean... really? who would sell a baby?

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Intelligence is not genetic, it is not inherent.

A bit off topic but just to enlighten you on that: when it comes to intelligence the debate of nurture vs nature is archaic now and seen as naive to think it's either one or the other, it's a combination of both, the question is in what proportion.
I'll spare you a tl dr but if you're interested, this is a big research area and plenty of info on the net, google scholar twin studies in intelligence if you want to skip straight to the actual experiments.

I realize that. However, as we know nothing about the characters or intellect of this woman's parents or even their parents, I am giving her the benefit of the doubt and assuming this situation is simply a stage of severe desperation for her to sell her child to this man (also, "lol" at automatically assuming any man (old or young) whom wants a child just wants the child to diddle and abuse - it seems cool to be misandric these days, doesn't it?), and that she is not mentally retarded or inherently intellectually deficient (not convinced this can be the case, but I will research more into it - thank you for the suggestion).