New Twist on “Safe Haven Laws”

I know some of you will already know this but there are others that don’t and I’d love to hear all of your opinions. At the moment I’m on the fence and I’ll explain why. There is a new safe haven law in Nebraska and here is a quote:

Nebraska’s new safe-haven law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.

I saw this on my local news today and they were interviewing a few asking what they thought, then they went to one mom that has done this and to a psycologist.  At first I thought oh this is nice, especially for those families of abuse. Now they won’t have to hit their kids. But then I started thinking, now it is just too easy. You are going to have families that just get fed up during those teens years and say f’it and give up on their kid. How does anyone think these children will feel?

The worse was when the newscaster or director of the “Safe Haven” made the comment, “this isn’t permanent, the parent can come back a week later, a month, 6 months, etc and take their child back.” I was left with my floor on the ground. First thought was oh so this is FREE daycare/babysitter. Imagine the summer, the child is home and the parent wants that cruise so bad that he/she decides time to give up and place the child in the Safe Haven, I’ll come back after my cruise to get them.

I’m not saying this will happen but it was my thought. It disgusted me, while I’m happy those abused children will have a place to go something yells it won’t happen anyways. Will an abusive parent do that? Most of these stories I write about with babies or see on the news they’ve already been through CPS and stuff. What makes them think these parents will just drop their kids off? I’m hoping they would but it just sounds so horrible. Then you begin thinking, how would the teen feel? Or a younger child? Like I said I’m torn on this one as I can see it being good for those that really need it but not for those that don’t. Your thoughts?