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NBC's Janet Shamlian told us about the unintended consequences of Nebraska's so-called safe haven law last month. Now CBS' Mark Strassmann and ABC's Barbara Pinto (no link) offer updates. The safe haven was supposed to apply to overwhelmed mothers of newborns, permitting them to abandon their babies into the care of the state no questions asked. Nebraska, unlike other states with safe haven laws, applied its to all children, not just babes in arms. As a consequence 34 minors from seven states have been handed over in Nebraska in three months, most of them teenagers, only one infant. Both Strassmann and Pinto quoted unidentified "child advocates" drawing a nationwide lesson from this dumping of teenagers: "the gap in care for kids in crisis," as Pinto put it; "a larger problem of protecting kids of all ages," worried Strassmann.
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