I’ve been watching the developments in Nebraska regarding their absolutely ridiculous safe-haven law allowing parents to abandon their children at state hospitals. Can you imagine being a self-consumed shiftless parent that dumps your kid at some hospital as they cry hysterically and plead with you not to leave them?
IMHO, this only gives lazy-ass parents the ability to *dump* their children on a porch-step only to escape the God-given responsibility of raising their kids. Granted, some people should not be charged with raising a goldfish or a lizard. Can you imagine the trauma and stress placed on a child as they’re told, “I cannot handle you and I’m abandoning you?”
Fortunately Nebraska, realizing their error today placed a 30-day age limit on the provision permitting children to be legally abandoned at hospitals. The law approved in July set no age limit and as a result more than 34 children, some as old as 17 were dumped at hospitals. Of those were nine of 10 children an Omaha man left after his wife died. How convenient.
Now comes this piece of Indiana human debris.
Why Wabash County mom abandoned 8-year-old in Nebraska“I don’t want Indiana to have custody of him.”
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“I took him there where I knew he would be safe because I didn’t trust the welfare system in Indiana and I didn’t want him to go through what I went through when I was growing up through the welfare system in Indiana,” she said. “So I felt like it would be the best thing to do would be to take him there where he would be safe.”
Mote would not say how Indiana’s system failed her, but a friend told The Indianapolis Star that Mote feels Indiana’s system failed her when she was abused as a child.
“She didn’t abandon him. She just wanted to get him help. She didn’t feel he’d get the help he needed in the state of Indiana,” said Rhonda Shea, who shares a Wabash County home with Mote and was acting as her spokeswoman.
Bullshit.
Shiftless – lazy – irresponsible.
The father of Mote’s son had custody of the boy after the couple separated more than two years ago, but the child moved in with Mote in April after Miami County authorities arrested the father for failing to register as a sex offender. The father had been convicted of child molesting in 1988. Mote divorced the father in September.
Shea said the boy’s behavior overwhelmed his mother. Although he’s 8, he’s not fully toilet-trained, and can be destructive, such as clawing paint off the walls and intentionally clogging the toilet, she said.
I’m pretty angry posting this. She actually let the child live with a convicted child molester?
There has to be other options.
AWB
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Dear God.
How is it that the system is letting children live in a home with a convicted child molester??? I know of one around here who married and has a baby with the new wife. He quit a job in the duck factory here and went to work selling Rainbow Vacuum Systems? So help me, if I were 1. so stupid as to have a demonstration in my home for a sweeper….and then to find out he is a convicted child molester…in my home with my kids???? Well I am pretty sure I would be suing Rainbow for starters….but wait, I am off topic, or am I?
So this woman dumped her child because he is 8 and not fully toliet trained, claws paint and clogs the toliet…The welfare system did NOT fail her or her child, SHE has FAILED her child. EOD.
I like this law. It seperates children from parents who doen’t deserve to have them and would likely cause more harm to the kids if forced to stay attached to them. The only problem is they forgot to add a requirement that the derilict parents must submit to forced sterilization in order to not be prosecuted.
AWB,
She CONCEIVED the child with a convicted molester. I just can’t get past that. Indiana needs a law that makes it illegal to leave the state with your kid and return without him.
Forced streilization…
( now THERE’S “change” we CAN believe in.)
Nice touch, Phil…
I like it.
B.G.
Permanent sterilization is a bit too far, but I think requiring Norplant as part of the terms for probation and parole might be a good idea.
There is a cliche’ that says “no good deed goes unpunished”. A bit cynical but true. Nebraska made a good law, simply flawed, and through good deeds the flaw was wrung out. Call worthless parents what you will but I believe it is better for a child to find a safe haven with people who either care about or will learn to love that child.
Not having a “safe haven” for these kids would likely subject them to far worse than the initial trauma of being “left”.
As to the child molester stuff, this is a public venue and I am sure my methods would offend many of you, so we will leave it at that. I will say that I would not force sterilize by chemical means, the old mechanical method works so much better…
I hate the fact that they left the children there but im torn becuase those kids are much better off than being left with those parents. would you want those children to be with parents that left them at the doorstep like that? the law is terrible at first glance but its better than having those kids abused and mistreated or worse just ignored by terrible parents. as a prolifer wouldnt i be a hypocrite to let these children die or be scared by ambivilant parents? the law has pointed to a problem in the system as conservatives shouldnt we be trying to fix the problem rather than gripe about the law? i would gladely take in a child that a parent no longer wants on the off chance that parent would harm the child
Tommy — I like how you think!
Maybe it’s time to rethink (and reopen) something we used to have in my day called ORPHANAGES…
And if history serves, we DID have many people who came from such places to become DAMN fine citizens and role models.
(all because their mother couldn’t…or wouldn’t take care of them)
I recall one place in Philly (St Stephens), along the Delaware river, run by nuns…always dropped off toys & stuffed bears for the kids there at Christmas.
B.G.
Bob G.,
I am not sure I agree with orphanages but I do think we do need a place to take care of children with severe mental issues that can not be addressed by parents.
I think if you would visit many of our FWCS and just observe some of the elem. students you would start to wonder if these children belong in our regular schools. Some fault with a few fall on the parents but many it is just a sad story of life. Even if we don’t like it.
Getting help for these children is often difficult at best. First, parents have to admitt to themselves that something is wrong which is highly difficult. Second, our health care system is is not designed in any form to assist in caring/treating these children. The costs are such there are few parents that could ever afford to provide such care on their own.
Children with mental issues are not easy to treat. While there are dozzens of meds out there it takes a great deal of time and effort on behalf of the parents and doctors to find the right meds and the dosage that works for a child. Even then they do not work 100% of the time.
I will agree there are parents out there that just want to rid themselves of raising a child. To me if they don’t want to is fine as long as they want to spend their time in jail. But I caution everyone not to even get a paint brush out to paint everyone in the same color.
What is so sad is these kids are not bad children but ones with severe mental issues. However they disrupt classes for five to ten minutes a day. Some days is higher and if a class has two or three students like this the lost time multiplies.