More Nebraska Fiasco:
KOLN/KGIN-TV reports that a 34 year woman attempted to dump her 15-year old daughter at Bryan LGH West yesterday morning, under the state’s safe haven law. Hospital officials talked her out of it, and admitted the teenager to the hospital’s child psychiatric service.
According to the mother, the girl was a runaway. The mother says she’d begun paperwork to make her daughter a ward of the state, “but it took too long.”
Let’s hope this woman never has to fill out an insurance claim or buy a house!
How much worse does this have to get before the legislature, stops husking corn, and repeals this travesty? No, the law doesn’t need tweaked or tightened-up or any other quaint-worded fix politicians want to throw about. The mass dumping of Nebraska’s children is the perfect consequence of what we have been saying would happen for the last nine years.
Who’s Next: Spouses? Grandparents?
How many families need to be destroyed before people wake up to the atrocity of “safe havens”?
I’ll be writing much more about this, but I’m heading for downtown in a few minutes and wanted to get this breaking news up.
START IN NEBRASKA AND SPREAD OUT!
TAKE BACK YOUR STATE NOW!
You said: “Let’s hope this woman never has to fill out an insurance claim or buy a house!”
Let’s hope so. Because having done both those things, the paperwork is tedious, confusing, and filled with enough traps that you need professionals to help navigate it.
Why does the state assume that someone who is having a hard time coping as a parent is necessarily able to do such paperwork?
And I don’t see the issue of spouses or grandparents. The law permits you to walk away from either. It’s called divorce in the first case, and in the second, there is so little presumption of responsibility, it doesn’t have a name.
The law permits you to relinquish your child too, no matter what age. But it requires more than just dropping them off.
“”Who’s Next: Spouses? Grandparents?””
Well now, I hadn’t thought about this before.. I have a 64 yr old hubby with diagnosed dementia..Maybe I need to take a road-trip to Nebraska. Recently during our Hurricane Ike mandatory evac, I threated demented hubby with the prospect of being left on the side of the road. I think Nebraska’s Save Haven Dumpsters would be more ‘humane’!! Would I be considered an ‘abandoner’?
Oh that’s a new low. Doesn’t get much more f-ed up than that.
A few days ago I had an ER co-worker (An experienced, educated, Registered Nurse) say how she wished more people would drop babies off at our ambulance bay “Safe Haven” and that if she ever saw someone dropping off a girl baby she would just grab her and bring her home because she has two boys and wants a girl so bad. Oh and, hopefully if they just leave one outside the door they won’t leave any note or identifying information or especially *gasp* a name to “make it easier on everyone.”
I HATE that law.