Nebraska lawmakers are upset about the number of children left by parents under the new safe haven law which allows children to be left at places like a hospital when they wish to give them up.
The truth is, as I understand it, is that the law was meant for infants who would be abandoned, but the law was not written stating an age, so people assume that children or minors means anyone under the age of 18.
Last week a father dropped off 9 of his children ages 1 to 17. His wife had died in childbirth with their last baby and he could not face raising all these children alone so he left them at an emergency room. Since the law was enacted in July the state of Nebraska has had 16 abandoned children, including these nine. So that means besides this family they’ve had 7 others in the entire state and they are thinking about revising the law.
Maybe it’s just me, but 16 children does not seem like a lot to me when compared to the whole population of Nebraska.
The goal of this law was to protect children from being left in garbage cans to die, or being murdered by parents who couldn’t keep them. If they do change the law and put age limits on the children, what would have happened to this family of nine siblings?
As I see it either way they would have become a problem of the state as either murder victims, or wefare cases, or maybe even criminals because of lack of supervision.
That is the reality sometimes of having baby after baby after baby as the bush administration would have all Americans do, since they’ve been passing legislation about some birth control methods being the same as abortions, and their declaration that life starts when sperm meets egg.
In light of that the proper thing would be is for the federal government to fork over some funds to take care of these unwanted kids.