It's not illegal in California.

I'm gonna pack.

No, but sorry about your childhood, smitty.

Brilliant! This is a great idea. Seriously, if you don't want to raise your kids give them up to the state without penalty. Maybe some of them will end up being raised right.

/teacher
//tired of dealing with the results of parents who don't care about their kids

grapefruitgal: Brilliant! This is a great idea. Seriously, if you don't want to raise your kids give them up to the state without penalty. Maybe some of them will end up being raised right.

Yeah, I'm not really seeing the downside here. Other than the fact that in many places the child protection system is so out of whack. But which is worse: having a child raised by someone who truly does not want them around or being raised by the system?

Philbb: having a child raised by someone who truly does not want them around or being raised by the system?

Indifference is a bit better than active dislike, I think. Both are pretty bad, but I think indifference is preferable.

As with others, I'm really not seeing the problem were. We've all seen what failure-parents have turned out:

Scary?
WTF?
Deserves a Hero tag.

Nah but she used to pretend like she was calling social services to come pick me up since I was little... and I was a good kid.

Mom was a psycho biatch.
She's on meds now.
29 years too late.

I'M NOT BITTER!!

Philbb: But which is worse: having a child raised by someone who truly does not want them around or being raised by the system?

Or someone leaving their baby in the dumpster. The Safe Haven laws were designed mainly to prevent stuff like that. The theory is that, if the mothers of unwanted babies know they can leave their newborns at a designated safe zone without fear of criminal charges, they will be less likely to leave them in places where they will die.

Don't know why, but I read that as Remember how mom used to threaten to give you to an orphanage if you masturbated?

SpaceyCat: Philbb: having a child raised by someone who truly does not want them around or being raised by the system?

Indifference is a bit better than active dislike, I think. Both are pretty bad, but I think indifference is preferable.

I agree

I predict a massive influx of road trips to Nebraska.

/hero tag seen whimpering in corner.

jus saying, sounds like a good way to get alot of you farkers out your parents basment.

"Remember how mom used to threaten to give you to an orphanage if you misbehaved? And then you got older and found out that it would have been illegal? Nebraska has decided to get rid of that pesky "illegal" part"

Nah. biatch raped me in the ass with my dad's belt (he had a black and a brown that he wore to work, I got black - the racist biatch...deddy liked the dark girls).

So my anus is loose and ready. So what do you want to tell me with your link. I guess I'm gaping and ready.

Having my Mom send me to an orphanage would have been less scary than what she used to threaten me with: Sending me to the Fathers at {mt. someplace - I can't remember where). Really scared the shiat out of me because that's where all the bad boys went. Years later I realized that my parents would have never sent me to a catholic reform school, as they were(are) good people and not cruel. If I was really bad, they would have just sold me to the circus, which was legal in those days.

Entirely unnecessary legislation. If you don't want your kids, you can just drown them in a bathtub or drive your car into a body of water or something.

I never thought I'd say this, but good for Nebraska.

*shiver*

If a parent did do this the kid is probably better off without them.

CraicBaby: Philbb: But which is worse: having a child raised by someone who truly does not want them around or being raised by the system?

Or someone leaving their baby in the dumpster. The Safe Haven laws were designed mainly to prevent stuff like that. The theory is that, if the mothers of unwanted babies know they can leave their newborns at a designated safe zone without fear of criminal charges, they will be less likely to leave them in places where they will die.

Safe Haven is a great idea. The problem is whenever a baby is dropped off the media swoops in to plaster the baby all over the news and release the hounds to find the mother. Completly cancelling out the whole "anonymous" concept.

Last year Japan opened its very first Baby Drop Off at a hospital. On the first day a preschooler was left there by his father. Imagine that poor kid's life, living with a father that couldn't wait to get rid of him. :'(

If people don't want their children they should be free to give them to someone who does.

Q: Mommy, where did I come from?
A: Gypsies left you at our doorstep. And if you are bad, all I have to do is call them to come and take you back.

/really

Orphanages get a bad rap. My preference to other options.

Been there done that.

And since the law does not specify, it technically allows anyone, not just a parent, to legally surrender custody. -FTFA

It's an old man's dream: how can there be neighborhood kids on your lawn when their custody has been systematically surrendered in a well orchestrated midnight campaign?

Man that is really bad! We need to fight this NOW! We can't have abusive, drug addicted, criminal parents having their children put in a more positive environment now can we?

Hmmm more i think about this, the more it jus seems to need to be a national policy. Just think no kids on my lawn, less basement dwellers hogging up bandwith, with this as a law i know we could get rid of half the idiots on fark. come on whose with me?

Burn14Me: Hmmm more i think about this, the more it jus seems to need to be a national policy. Just think no kids on my lawn, less basement dwellers hogging up bandwith, with this as a law i know we could get rid of half the idiots on fark. come on whose with me?

How much bandwidth is need to on the "Kids and your lawn" forums on www.crotchetyoldfolks.com, honestly? Or is it your clan matches for the Matlock Half-Life mod? BTW word is you have a habit in the game of always camping the Country Home Buffet. L2play, newb!

I told you I was hardcore.



Rock on, er, twang out, uh, inbreed....whatever.

goenie , leave tinny alone!

unicron702:
How much bandwidth is need to on the "Kids and your lawn" forums on www.crotchetyoldfolks.com, honestly? Or is it your clan matches for the Matlock Half-Life mod? BTW word is you have a habit in the game of always camping the Country Home Buffet. L2play, newb!

Camp with my fav gun, a pump shottie? That is not very effective. Most of what you wrote is pretty much incoherent. Well at least to me anyways, maybe use spell check in ms word then jus copy past over to fark from there. By the way is this you who inspired this comic?

Burn14Me: unicron702:
How much bandwidth is need to on the "Kids and your lawn" forums on www.crotchetyoldfolks.com, honestly? Or is it your clan matches for the Matlock Half-Life mod? BTW word is you have a habit in the game of always camping the Country Home Buffet. L2play, newb!

Camp with my fav gun, a pump shottie? That is not very effective. Most of what you wrote is pretty much incoherent. Well at least to me anyways, maybe use spell check in ms word then jus copy past over to fark from there. By the way is this you who inspired this comic?

Thank you for your contribution to the thread.

Nebraska is the new China.

FYI: China allows people to abandon female children anywhere. My friend adopted 2 girls from China. One had been abandoned at a factory.

People can give up their children in every state already, its just not as simple as dropping them off at the hospital. But those who do tend to give up custody (or have it taken from them) without giving up their rights to the child (so the child can't be adopted). They expect to regain custody someday when they get out of jail/get off drugs/get a job/leave their abusive partner/become a good parent. Meanwhile, the kid grows up in foster care, or with his grandparents if he's lucky.

That's why foster homes are so crowded and people say "There are so many children who need homes."

Mongo, China does not allow abandonment -it is illegal. That's why it is anonymous.

FTFA: "And since the law does not specify, it technically allows anyone, not just a parent, to legally surrender custody."

Are they saying that they created a law where anyone can surrender custody? The uncle out with the kids at a ballgame? The cranky babysitter? Friends' parents during a sleepover?

That part of the law...it just doesn't seem thought through.

Mom: "So where are the kids? How did they like the zoo?"
Friend: "I surrendered custody of them. But look, now you'll finally have time to take that big vacation with your husband! And you can come out drinking with us this weekend."
Mom: "......."

Mongo cut wood: Nebraska is the new China.

FYI: China allows people to abandon female children anywhere. My friend adopted 2 girls from China. One had been abandoned at a factory.

Was she picked up BEFORE she went in? If not she probably got a no call/no show for work at the shoe factory.

Miss Cellania: Mongo, China does not allow abandonment -it is illegal. That's why it is anonymous.

but they also have created this culture of male child preference, and it's gotten out of hand.

what happens is that you end up with a shortage of women for marriage, etc. and it just creates more social issues.

It's time to bring back the orphanages. People who can't be minimally responsible parents shouldn't have kids, and our society's odd habit of paying bad parents lifetime stipends to do a terrible job of raising their kids is stupid. We take kids away from parents who beat or abuse them, we take kids away from parents who can't be bothered to feed or care for them - but when it comes to people who can't be bothered to get out of bed and go support the kids they've had, we cheerfully give them money to raise their kids badly and pass their own loser mentality on to them. Raising kids in a welfare lifestyle IS child abuse - and it produce an extraordinary number of criminals and social deviants.
Bring back the orphanages.

Hah! **** YOU RESPONSIBILITY! Now I don't have to pay for military school or accidentally pump Carbon Monoxide into his room at night!

Omnis_evil_twin
Safe Haven is a great idea. The problem is whenever a baby is dropped off the media swoops in to plaster the baby all over the news and release the hounds to find the mother. Completly cancelling out the whole "anonymous" concept.

I don't see the problem there. If someone doesn't think they're capable of being a parent, fine, but they should at least have the decency to publicly admit it.

Personally, I'm all for just dumping them off in the woods somewhere.

/Don't look at me like that. It happened in damn near every fairy-tale I've ever heard and the kids always made out in the end.

Female-abandon child-Freebie!

Male-Abondon child-jail & forced child support payments.

Mouser: Omnis_evil_twin
Safe Haven is a great idea. The problem is whenever a baby is dropped off the media swoops in to plaster the baby all over the news and release the hounds to find the mother. Completly cancelling out the whole "anonymous" concept.

I don't see the problem there. If someone doesn't think they're capable of being a parent, fine, but they should at least have the decency to publicly admit it.

But the point of the law is to be able to anonymously leave your baby in good hands. Obviously, these women had plenty of time to arrange an abortion or an adoption. For some reason, they cannot do either. Maybe shame, maybe abuse at home, and/or fear of punishment.

They turn to Safe Havens because it frees them from the problem of punishment and exposure. Otherwise, they would just strangle the baby and leave it in the nearest dumpster behind the high school.

Hell, I think this law gives the parent too much agency. I think the government should actively be taking children away from their "parents" and giving them to people who will actually raise them properly.

On welfare? Doing drugs? Ghetto trash? All three? Sorry, we're taking your kid.

The ghetto does nothing but teach kids to be drug dealers, rapists, and murderers. We ought to actively liberate kids from the projects before the projects corrupt them.

NYZooMan: Female-abandon child-Freebie!

Male-Abondon child-jail & forced child support payments.

Alas, I am not the only one to see the inequity within our court system.

It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.

Are there any states where I can drop off a 23 year old?

/I know he's going to see this

grapefruitgal: Brilliant! This is a great idea. Seriously, if you don't want to raise your kids give them up to the state without penalty. Maybe some of them will end up being raised right.

/teacher
//tired of dealing with the results of parents who don't care about their kids

Yeah, I don't see the problem, either, other than possibly with the lack of a restriction on who can do it.

This gives me a brilliant idea. I'm moving to Nebraska and letting the various in-laws know that Christmas is at my house this year and bring the kids.

There are already ways to get the "know it all" out of your house. The law for emancipating minors is on the books in a lot of states. Once you bring those papers into the home and start filling them out and changing locks, it usually sinks in. Having watched a relative allow the spouse to pamper the "baby" for years and then said baby gets so big that it physically started assaulting others is all it finally took. Tough love at its finest finally.

ya ya.. funny.

I actually have a problem with this. It says that ANYONE can drop them off. Not just mothers. Can be fathers. Can be BABYSITTERS.

Who doesn't see children being given up for adoption out of revenge going on here.

"Well I told that jerk I had a date tonight and not to be late picking up these kids."

"I'll fix her little red wagon. If I can't have custody then neither can she."

"I hate my job at the daycare. My boss is a gorgon. Won't she have fun trying to explain all these kids ended up in state custody."

How could they not have thought about this? Anyone is allowed to just drop off a child anonomously? WTF? My kids bio-mom has ignored them for years and we can't get her parental rights revoked for me to adopt. But in Nebraska they are going to terminate rights indescriminately just by having anyone drop a kid off???

This is full of Fail.