Florida Father Uses Nebraska's Safe Haven

[struggle4progress]

Source: KFAB

Health and Human Services says an 11 year old boy was left at Boys Town National Research Hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Since September, 31 children have been left under the state's safe haven law. The majority of children have been from Nebraska, but parents from Iowa, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Indiana and now Florida have used the law ...

Governor Dave Heineman has called a special session for Friday to change the law, so only it would only apply to newborns.

Nebraska and Alaska were the last states in the country to adopt a safe haven law and Nebraska is the only state that currently allows parents to drop of children of any age.

The special session is expected to last seven days and during that time, the safe haven law will continue to be in effect ...

Read more: http://www.kfab.com/script2/print.php?page=/pages/localnews.html&article_id=4574353&feed_id=122285

[IndyOp]

1. If people are using the law, then perhaps it should stand and be expanded to more states...

It is tremendously sad and, then again, the parents would otherwise be abandoning their children instead of leaving them in safe haven locations...

:(

[struggle4progress]

2. Yes, the law may actually be protecting older children from abuse. It's understandable

that Nebraska doesn't want to be a national dumping ground for kids -- but in reality most people really love their children aren't about to dump them, no matter how many times the idea briefly crosses their minds

[pnwmom]

9. I don't know about that. My father frequently threatened to kick my sister out;

and I didn't know that would have been against the law, so I believed him. (And she wasn't a bad kid; but she stood up for herself and talked back to him and he couldn't stand that.) If there were a well-publicized safe haven law, his threats would have been that much more scary.

[zelta gaisma]

3. better this than...

selling the kid to sleesy joe pimp on the corner. Or having another "boy in the box" isn't it? and YES both of those things DO happen and worse sometimes dad BECOMES sleesy joe pimp

[sandnsea]

5. And sometimes mom does too

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3171415&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

[zelta gaisma]

6. yeah your right, i just said dad cause .....

it was a dad in that article...some "parents" should be sent to Gitmo or somewhere worse if the US has the authority . To bad parents like her can't be treated like that. If there was ever someone I would CHEER at being tortured...she'd be it.

[sandnsea]

4. They can do an Interstate Compact

and have the state of residence pay for any services the child receives in Nebraska, or arrange transportation back to family, etc. I think the law should stand and we can see what's going on with some families that are obviously slipping through the cracks.

[Leeny]

7. You should have to have a license

to be a parent. No kidding. Free access to birth control, no parental notification requirement. Kids having kids, even adults having kids, who are just not ready to be parents.

Hell, I had two kids and am a damned good parent, but I've had my moments. I wondered just last week how long the drive would be to Nebraska!! (just jokin')

I don't know what's wrong with people that they think their kids are disposable. Makes me sad.

[2Design]

8. for those against abortion this is a good law for parents where it

becomes overwhelming because of many reasons - this is where the pro-lifers fall down again - they like war but say they are against killing but they are unwilling to support and take care of those that others can not - they have tried to take care of theses children and they can not handle it - so they are best able to give them up -

[JimDandy]

10. Leave the law alone - too many kids are killed over child support payments.