Nebraska agrees to 30 days
30-day age limit on haven law advances in Legislature:
It seems that the Nebraska Legislature is leaning towards a 30-day limit for their new and improved safe haven law. This is expected to be law come Friday.
There were actually some people who wanted the law to remain wide open. The law was originally designed to prevent baby dumping but the way it was written Nebraska it led to lazy parenting in my opinion.
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5 opinions for Nebraska agrees to 30 days
brent
Nov 20, 2008 at 9:45 pm
so… just to be clear - are you anti or pro safe haven laws? I agree that they provide an easy way out for people to avoid responsibility - but surely they save lives, and avoid abortions?
Trench Reynolds
Nov 20, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I am very pro safe haven. I just think Nebraska’s was a joke. I don’t think one infant was dropped off.
harlequin1031
Nov 21, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I don’t think it should have been closed until the law had remained as was long enough for a statistical evaluation as to whether or not it correlated with a drop in child abuse cases. I can not imagine how any parent could leave their child, but I also cannot imagine how any parent could abuse a child. Just as allowing infants to be dropped of decreased the rate of “dumpster babies”, allowing older children to be dropped off may have decreased the rate of children being beaten or killed by their parents.
brent
Nov 21, 2008 at 9:19 pm
older kids?!?!?!
How old?
I thought that safe haven laws were for new borns only?????
Anon
Nov 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Nebraska’s law had no age limit. 17-year-olds from other states were being dropped off. Trench has plenty of posts on the problem here and on badbreeders.net .
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