Nebraska Parents Rush to Abandon Teenage Kids Before Safe Haven Laws Expire

Posted on 13. Nov, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Idiocy

In yet another exception of those good ol’ Red State family values, parents in Nebraska are rushing to abandon their children, some as old as 17, at hospitals before the state legislature has the chance to close the loophole in the state’s recently passed Safe Haven law that allows kids of any age to be abandoned legally:
To the state’s surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 33 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.
But state officials may have inadvertently made [...]