Nebraska Safe Haven Law
"Please don't bring your teenager to Nebraska." Curious words from the governor of a state who signed a bill into law and now wants people to ignore it. Even more curious is why it has taken so long for this chief executive to call a special legislative session to repeal the very law that he signed.
I'm talking about the safe haven law that allows parents to drop off their children without any questions asked -- a law that virtually forgives child neglect and abandonment at the highest level. Impotence is the only word that comes to mind in describing this colossal mess.
It's not just that Nebraska didn't bother to put an age limit on their statute as every other state in the country has -- it's that it has taken them so long to move on their disastrous attempt to provide a safe haven for unwanted babies.
I know full well the enormity of the burden that unwed teenage girls feel when they give birth to an unwanted child. For decades as a former prosecutor and district attorney, I dealt with the babies born alive then found in dumpsters, garbage cans and toilet bowls. The safe haven law allows the anonymous drop off babies with no questions asked at local hospitals or designated locations. This way, instead of the obvious danger to infants, reluctant or unwilling mothers cannot be prosecuted for neglect, abandonment or even murder. Most states limit the drop off of babies who are three, five or 14-days-old. These laws are wisely grounded in the protection of the innocent.
When the governor says, "Think of what you're saying. You are saying you no longer support them (your children). You no longer love them." he is stating the obvious. And for every day the Nebraska Legislature fails to act, more and more parents are rushing to cross state lines to drop their children off, few of which are babies, most of them teenagers.
There have been outrageous stories written for months about the fast trek parents are taking to rid themselves of their own children. A close second outrageous story is the slow trek the Nebraska legislature is taking to reverse its own ineptitude.
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what the ! its so sad to read about how others that, for what ever reason feel the need to take the moral high ground without knowing ALL the facts to why someone would give up there children but of course their is no good reason so lets not help anyone except those who follow the same , u know just like the taliban, our way or else....
Although I understand the Safe Haven Law to protect children who are born to children (by this I mean teenage mothers) who are not able to care for them, I have a problem with it being used as some crazy pseudo form of birth control. The problem with the parents being able to drop off babies anonymously is that there is no way to determine whether or not they are doing it more than once. This gives people who did not just have an accident but who are completely irresponsible and negligent a way out of being or becoming an adult. Perhaps questions should be asked and education provided to the unprepared parents.
i'm not trying to be rude,but to me when parents have unwanted children [of any age] and don't want them they will most likely treat their children badly and they child will sence that.so
if i were a child i'd rather not be with someone
who i feel that doesn't love or want me,because their are lots of other people in this world that
are very willing and desperately want children and can't have any,so to me thats the best thing for these kids,they don't need parents that don't love or want them.
I wonder when they finally reverse the law if the parents have to take their teens back or if they will stay in the system. They may be better off without parents who would desert them.
The Safe Haven Law is aimed at protecting helpless new borns. This Law I agree with. As for having the law for teenagers, this is ridiculous. Nebraska needs to have an age limit applied.
If all those Nebraska Cornhusker fans weren't so wrapped up in "Go Big Red" they would have noticed that there wasn't an age limit included in the state's Safe Haven law. Just another example of why the rest of the country thinks Nebraska is a state filled with beer swilling, corn growing hicks.
I agree with a Safe Haven Law to protect these unfortunate babies from thier worthless mothers whom wont be able to take care of them. Adoption to someone who can and wants to is better for all.
Nebraska should follow the rest of the states and put into affect an age limit of weeks.