I was wondering when they'd get around to this. Nebraska's Safe Haven law was different from every other state in that they didn't include an age limit - they only used the word "child" leaving the door open for any parent to anonymously drop off any kid under the age of 18 with no strings attached. A law which had good intentions was being horribly abused, and I was waiting for Nebraska to change that wording. It took longer than expected, but they're finally going to adopt new verbiage to include only children less than 30 days old.
Its good that they finally addressed this, as Nebraska was becoming the punchline for the entire country. For example - Roscommon and I got sucked in to watching ER last night and one parent (jokingly) said to their 17-year old "Keep it up! I swear to God I'll drop you off in Omaha!" We both looked at each other and said ".....ouch."
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Boystown is taking most of those kids, what a sad situation. Many were mental health or anger behavior situations. So many in those few months, think how many more are out there.
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