Your morning started with the usual routine: shaking your children out of bed, getting ready for work, going back into your kids' rooms to get them up again, fixing breakfast, settling yet another bathroom dispute, packing brown-bag lunches for your youngsters, convincing your son he is not sick and can go to school today, putting up your daughter's hair and whisking them off to school. After a long day of rushing around the office, you hop in your car, only to realize the hard part of the day is not over.
You still have to get three kids to soccer practice, piano lessons, a student council fundraiser, a volleyball game and tutoring. Meanwhile, there is a message on your cell phone from a teacher requesting a meeting about your son's grades, you daughter has to go to the mall to get new jeans, you have to punish the youngest two for getting into a fight on the playground, and although you haven't thought about what's for dinner, four kids are already whining about the potentials.
Raising children is by no means a walk in the park, but would you ever reach the point where you would just drop them off at a hospital and drive away? Since Nebraska enacted its new "safe haven" law, which prevents parents or guardians from being prosecuted if a child is abandoned in a safe place, 16 children have been left to state custody in 11 days. How can it be possible that it is legal for parents to abandon their children?
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