Safe Haven Law from Nebraska.

[Leto729]

I found this interesting.

Note it is a bit long in reading.

http://unicameralupdate.blogspot.com/search/label/LB157

[El]

I think they should have kept it at 17 and under.

[Callaway]

I think they should have kept it at 17 and under.

I agree.  If there are people who are so desperate to get help taking care of their children that they would actually drive from Georgia or Iowa to Nebraska to make use of such a law, then maybe there really needs to be a similar law in every state.

Ann Schumacher, CEO of Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center, testified that the appropriate age limit for the safe haven law is one year.  She said safe haven cases in Nebraska usually have involved families that have run out of options.

“It is time that we as a state, community and country address the mental health crisis that permeates our (society),” Schumacher said.

...Some senators were apprehensive about narrowing the age range, because they said families had voiced concerns that the only way for them to obtain needed services for their children was to surrender them under the safe haven law.

[McGiver]

reagan shut down the mental health facilities here, when he wa the governator.

[Christopher McCandless]

What exactly is a Safe Haven Law?

[McGiver]

you drop off your kid and the state will take care of them.

they first started because too many teens were abandoning their newborns in dumpsters.

[TheoK]

I wouldn't call that a safe haven. Many childrens' lives have been destroyed that way.

A safe haven IMHO is when a caring relative or friend prevents the authorities from intervening by self taking care of the child.

[McGiver]

I wouldn't call that a safe haven. Many childrens' lives have been destroyed that way.

A safe haven IMHO is when a caring relative or friend prevents the authorities from intervening by self taking care of the child.

look around at the current world we live in and the competition for limited resources.

a safe haven would be letting them die before they have to experience this crap.,

[TheoK]

I wouldn't call that a safe haven. Many childrens' lives have been destroyed that way.

A safe haven IMHO is when a caring relative or friend prevents the authorities from intervening by self taking care of the child.

look around at the current world we live in and the competition for limited resources.

a safe haven would be letting them die before they have to experience this crap.,

Agreed. Alas. 

[Christopher McCandless]

you drop off your kid and the state will take care of them.

they first started because too many teens were abandoning their newborns in dumpsters.

Having it go up until someone is teenage is a bit ridiculous - I thought the idea would be that social workers would work with the families in preventing it from happening.

[McGiver]

universal healthcare is also rediculous.  but i guess that some people get some benefits from it.

[Christopher McCandless]

universal healthcare is also rediculous.  but i guess that some people get some benefits from it.

Having a national health service is brilliant - the USA should have gotten one about 60 years ago.

[TheoK]

you drop off your kid and the state will take care of them.

they first started because too many teens were abandoning their newborns in dumpsters.

Having it go up until someone is teenage is a bit ridiculous - I thought the idea would be that social workers would work with the families in preventing it from happening.

In Sweden they can take anyone up to 18 years from their parents for whatever reason they find out. I know perfectly law-abiding parents with good jobs having their kids taken from them because of rumours that they were alcoholics...guess why I hate Swedish authorities...

[McGiver]

universal healthcare is also rediculous.  but i guess that some people get some benefits from it.

Having a national health service is brilliant - the USA should have gotten one about 60 years ago.

should they?

better for those of us who do have great benefits.  we get sick and are treated like royalty.

you know all about royalty, dontcha?

[McGiver]

Having it go up until someone is teenage is a bit ridiculous - I thought the idea would be that social workers would work with the families in preventing it from happening.

In Sweden they can take anyone up to 18 years from their parents for whatever reason they find out. I know perfectly law-abiding parents with good jobs having their kids taken from them because of rumours that they were alcoholics...guess why I hate Swedish authorities...
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safe haven is not theft from the state.  it is a gift TO the state.