Sunday, September 28, 2008
This is freaky...
Parents are abandoning teenagers at Nebraska hospitals, in a case of a well intentioned law inspiring unintended results.[Link]
Over the last two weeks, moms or dads have dropped off seven teens at hospitals in the Cornhusker state, indicating they didn't want to care for them any more.
"They were tired of their parenting role," according to Todd Landry of Nebraska's Department of Human and Human Services, quoted in USA Today.
Under a newly implemented law, Nebraska is the only state in the nation to allow parents to leave children of any age at hospitals and request they be taken care of, USA Today notes. So-called "safe haven laws" in other states were designed to protect babies and infants from parental abandonment.
The most eye-popping case in Nebraska occurred Wednesday, when a 34-year-old father deposited nine children ages 1 to 17 at Creighton University Medical Center -- and then walked away.
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RSS feed for commentsThe Vicar wrote 9/28 9:18am in reply to Original article: Gee, what a surprise. One of the reddest of red states (went to Bush in 2004 by 67% to 32%) is filled with people who (a) have a lot of children that (b) they don't want and (c) are perfectly willing to dump on the public weal. And they take in more revenue in government spending, as of 2005, than they pay in taxes. Republicans are such deadbeats. (Reply) |
