A Warning To Children Everywhere
It was supposed to be a safety valve for unwed mothers. It was supposed to be a humane alternative to trashing newborns in dumpsters. But what it also illustrated is that some parents have had enough of their spoiled rotten, rude, narcissistic offspring and were willing to just up and walk away from them, no questions asked.
A 14-year-old California boy became the last teenager reported abandoned under Nebraska’s safe-haven law, which was just changed to limit such drop-off to infants 30-days-old or less. The boy, from Yolo County, Calif., was left at the Kimball County Hospital late Friday afternoon by his mother, who drove to Nebraska.
It brought the total number of drop-offs to 27, and the total number of children left at a hospital to 36 since the law went on the books in July. Many of them were preteens or teenagers as old as 17.
So, for all you wise-ass kids out there, Nebraska may have changed the law but the sentiment remains: some of us parents have a limit to the crap we’ll take and can (and will) drop you off in a heartbeat if that golden opportunity presents itself.
Think about THAT the next time you decide to have a tantrum.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Yes, but everytime I tell them that, Bob, they remind me that they’ll be the ones choosing which home to leave me at when old age finally takes over …
Jimmy Lewis
SCS, Michigan
Blog: http://rougerevival.blogspot.com/
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Jimmy,
Knowing today’s kids as we do, who will be living in whose home?
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Good Lord, if the parents today would PARENT then the kids would behave …
A warm fuzzy memory has popped into my mind … While my kids were still in school, probably middle school/early high school age, we were in Wal-Mart or some similar store, and there was a kid really acting up – my oldest son turned to me and THANKED ME for not letting him act like that “when he was little” …
Today, he is a USMC … his younger brother who was there at the time is also pursuing a career with the Marines …
It takes parenting to raise respectful kids … not a pill, not a school, not a village … it starts at home and radiates out …
How many kids were “diagnosed” with ADD or ADHD when my sons were young? (they are 23 and 20) … few and far between, those “diseases” were not prevalent then, yet today, every dang kid is on some sort of medicine for behavior … ummm maybe some PE time in school, some play time and structure at home, some responsibility and accountability for the kids AND their parents would go a long way to happy home life, and less folks packing up the kids and dumping them off in another state …
Just my 2cents
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
This is no different than abortion or other forms of responsibility abandonment. When given an opportunity by the government to abandon a responsibility, in this case parenting, there are always those who will take it.