Y’all know I love to read the news while I eat lunch - it’s a daily ritual of mine. When I came across this news story, I was at once furious and deeply saddened for these children.
11 kids, including family of 9, abandoned
Basically Nebraska has a law that allows parents to drop off children (i.e., abandon them) at hospitals, police stations and firestations. North Carolina has a similar law. However, apparently Nebraska is not limiting it to babies.
Nine of these eleven children that were discarded by their father, were brothers and sisters. The other two were teenagers.
How can people do this?
You don’t become a parent to throw your children away when they get too much to handle. These children are people - can you imagine how they’re feeling? To just be kicked to the curb and left to grow up without parents?
It brought tears to my eyes, y’all, and it’s just absolutely unforgivable. Even if I wasn’t a parent, I would still find this abandonment to be shocking and cruel.
Take a moment to send some good vibes to these poor children. I think they’ll need all the love they can get.
How awful!!!! To me that is taking total advantage of a law that was designed to protect newborn babies! How could anyone just walk away from children like that! It makes me very sad…….my thoughts and prayers are with all of them!
by Blanche September 25th, 2008 at 2:36 pmThis happened in my city, and I can tell you there are plenty of concerned people. These weren’t even the first children dropped off since this law went into effect. The children are in foster care.
The father of the nine children believed he was doing what was best for them, but there are other avenues he could have pursued. There is provision and help for parents in a desperate situation. Anyone getting state assistance is provided help and counseling whenever they need it.
Lawmakers are already looking at the fact that the broad provision made by this law needs to be re-thought. I don’t think any of them dreamed that something like this would happen. The kids and the lawmakers need our prayers.
by Cheryl St.John September 27th, 2008 at 12:53 amBlanche ~ I agree wholeheartedly.
Cheryl ~ Thanks for coming by! I’m glad to know these children are in foster care, hopefully a more stable home than where they came from. I definitely am keeping those kids in my prayers (and hoping the lawmakers can stop it from happening again).
by beth September 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am