Would You Drop Your Kids Off?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008In Nebraska there is a Safe Haven law that allows parents to give up a minor of any age — possibly an unruly teenager — instead of just infants.
Passed in February by the state’s nonpartisan Legislature, the law specifies that no person can be prosecuted for leaving any child in the custody of any on-duty hospital employee. While other states set a much lower age limit for children to be left under safe haven laws — the oldest is a year in North Dakota — Nebraska law defines a “child” as anyone up to 19 years old.
The video highlights a mom who drove over 1,000 miles from Georgia to give up custody of her 12 year old son. What do you think of that? Would you do something like that?
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