The new Mayor of New York admires our baby boxes. Will see how he goes, not to sure of his policy but but Trump hates him so that's a good start.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25603202.zohran-mamdan-cites-scotlands-baby-boxes-plans-new-york-version/

by Financial-Sugar4102

21 comments

  1. I LOVED our baby box and I look forward to the second one!

  2. We nicked the idea

    >The measure will be based on Finland’s “maternity package” [scheme](http://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage) which has run for more than 80 years. With a 95% take-up rate, it has been credited with cutting the Finnish infant death rate from 10% to 0.2%.

    >[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/17/nicola-sturgeon-to-provide-free-baby-box-to-new-parents-scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/17/nicola-sturgeon-to-provide-free-baby-box-to-new-parents-scotland)

  3. Didn’t we steal the idea ourselves though? Why are we getting the credit 

  4. Glad to know that Scotland, Finland, and Chile care about children after they are born.

  6. I’m sure people will use this as an excuse to sau “Sturgeon must resign”

  7. Does he know that if you douse it in lighter fluid and then attack it with a flamethrower, they are actually really flammable.

  8. I read a story in Time this week strangely enough about baby boxes in the USA.
    They are believe it or not for placing unwanted babies in. The boxes ( a kind of survival cell ) set off warning system when a baby is put in one and health care people come and uplift the babies. I thought on starting the story it would be about what we understand a baby box to be.
    Alas the USA never fails to astound me.
    It would be good however if they adopted the Baby box similar to the mentioned Finnish / Scottish versions.

  9. Just as a matter of interest, New York City already has an infant death rate similar to our own

    Theirs is 3.8, ours is 3.5 (same as the UK as a whole)

  11. But the boxes will burst into flames if set on fire after being doused in an accelerant.

  13. Can we also steal Finland’s plans for no private schools? And their variable fines based on income? And fuck it… let’s just be as sound as them. Kiitos

  14. Scotland never invented it but like to pretend we did.

  15. The baby box was such a great way to start off stuff. Heck, I still have the box even after all the contents have been given away as our kid grew.

  17. The tiniest concession that the population might need some help that managed to sneak past Dacre and Murdoch and thats the “SoCiAlIsM” that got Pelosi to quit and Hilary to compare Mamdani to Trump?

  18. Hopefully he’ll also legalise haggis, and reverse one of the greatest injustices in American law.

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