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kyburgI really don't like being right. I don't like predicting the future even more.
What, you say?
A Council Bluffs teen who was dropped off Tuesday night under Nebraska's safe haven law remained in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services this morning but could be returned to Iowa eventually.
The 14-year-old girl was left at Creighton University Medical Center, HHS officials said. It was the first time an out-of-state youth has been left under Nebraska's unique safe haven law.
"We have made a formal report of the abandonment to the Iowa child abuse hot line," said Todd Landry, children and family services director for HHS. "We are working with the Iowa Department of Human Services to resolve this situation as quickly as possible."
The child is the 18th youngster left at a hospital or, in one case, at an Omaha police station by a parent or guardian intending to use the law, which went into effect July 18.
What, you say? No babies beingdumped turned over - but mostly teenagers?
OH MY. Tell me it ain't so - well, don't try too hard.
You want why, you can talk to someone also on LJ working in the system in Iowa who might know more.
People abandoned their pets...they started tossing them over fences into the yards of people they trusted to take care of them.
Now, people are doing the same with their kids.
When I think we've hit bottom with the whole 'morality of modern conservative thought' - the bottom falls out again. Falls WAY down again.
(BTW, this liberal didn't have children before she knew they would be 14 someday and tell me to get stuffed. Or expected someone to take them off my hands when they did. *eyeroll*)
What, you say?
A Council Bluffs teen who was dropped off Tuesday night under Nebraska's safe haven law remained in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services this morning but could be returned to Iowa eventually.
The 14-year-old girl was left at Creighton University Medical Center, HHS officials said. It was the first time an out-of-state youth has been left under Nebraska's unique safe haven law.
"We have made a formal report of the abandonment to the Iowa child abuse hot line," said Todd Landry, children and family services director for HHS. "We are working with the Iowa Department of Human Services to resolve this situation as quickly as possible."
The child is the 18th youngster left at a hospital or, in one case, at an Omaha police station by a parent or guardian intending to use the law, which went into effect July 18.
What, you say? No babies being
OH MY. Tell me it ain't so - well, don't try too hard.
You want why, you can talk to someone also on LJ working in the system in Iowa who might know more.
People abandoned their pets...they started tossing them over fences into the yards of people they trusted to take care of them.
Now, people are doing the same with their kids.
When I think we've hit bottom with the whole 'morality of modern conservative thought' - the bottom falls out again. Falls WAY down again.
(BTW, this liberal didn't have children before she knew they would be 14 someday and tell me to get stuffed. Or expected someone to take them off my hands when they did. *eyeroll*)
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Date: 2008-10-11 04:14 pm (UTC)I think it has to do with the fact that same-sex parents know how much disapproval for them there is out there in the world, and so they feel they have to try really, really hard at being perfect parents because there is always the specter looming around the corner that someone wants to take your children away not because they want them, but just because they don't want you to have them. I can't help but feel bad for how stressful it must be for them, and pleased at how together they keep it.
That said, I sometimes wish hetero parents faced some of the same pressures, if it would help them be that attentive to their children's needs. :(