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Nebraska backtracks from its "safe haven" law that had parent abandoning not just babies, but older kids.

You'll have to drop off the kid in its first 3 days. The government is happy to accept your cute little adoptable babies, but you're going to need to take responsibility for those babies you've gone and transformed into brats that you can't stand to keep around anymore.

Since it became law in Nebraska, at least 18 children aged between 22 months and 17 years have been abandoned, including two cases where parents drove from Iowa and Michigan just to drop their children off.

The changes are due to come into effect from next January.

Not until January, eh? Well, then, it's not too late to pile into the van. You know how to get to I-80?

Full post as published by Althouse on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).