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Abandonment Defined
The most common legal grounds for termination of parental rights, also a form of child abuse in most states. Sporadic visits, a few phone calls, or birthday cards are not sufficient to maintain parental rights. Fathers who manifest indifference toward a pregnant mother are also viewed as abandoning the child when it is born.
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Neb. Eyes Age Change For Safe Haven Law
Published November 18, 2008, 2:09 am, WSMV Nashville
Nebraska senators will debate the state's controversial safe-haven law that has brought 34 children to be abandoned at hospitals.
Drew Peterson consults with attorney about divorce
Published November 18, 2008, 2:03 am, SouthtownStar
His fourth wife vanished more than a year ago - and now ex-Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson is considering making the separation official.
Neb. Eyes Age Change For Safe Haven Law
Published November 18, 2008, 1:53 am, Fox 12 Oregon
Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state's safe haven law. The proposal, advanced Monday by a legislative committee, is designed to stop a rash of drop-offs of older children, including teens, at hospitals in the state.
Coming to the Defense of Nebraska's Child Abandonment Law
Published November 18, 2008, 1:23 am, Time Magazine
A law that saw kids in their teens given up by parents is being rewritten but not before its advocates argue for the need to improve mental health services
Drew Peterson meets with divorce attorney
Published November 18, 2008, 12:11 am, Southeast Missourian
CHICAGO — Drew Peterson, the former Bolingbrook police sergeant under investigation in the disappearance of his fourth wife, has met with a prominent divorce lawyer, his attorney said Monday.
Senators to begin first-round debate on Safe Haven
Published November 17, 2008, 11:07 pm, Lincoln Journal Star
The Legislature will begin first-round debate Tuesday morning on amending the safe haven law, but with a 30-day age limit instead of the original 3-day limit.
Age limit for Nebraska safe-haven law debated
Published November 17, 2008, 9:43 pm, Los Angeles Times
Nebraska legislators opened a public hearing Monday on adding an age limit to a safe-haven law that has allowed nearly three dozen children -- some close to adulthood -- to be abandoned at hospitals.
Public Safe Haven Hearing
Published November 17, 2008, 8:45 pm, KOLN Lincoln
The Legislature's Judiciary Committee met Monday to listen to comments from health care providers, mothers and even abandoned children about the state's safe haven law.
Neb. senators eye age limit for safe haven law
Published November 17, 2008, 7:41 pm, KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state's safe haven law
Neb. senators eye age limit for safe haven law
Published November 17, 2008, 7:32 pm, Las Vegas Sun
Mon, Nov 17, 2008 (7:21 p.m.) Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state's safe haven law.
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- Nebraska begins its special legislative session on its child abandoment law: I've been following this for a while.
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- Neb. parents rush to leave kids before law changes - Yahoo! News: This is quite possibly the saddest thing I've ever read...
- Nebraska fears rush to drop off kids before haven law change - CNN.com: "All but six have been older than 10, according to a Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services analysis. The safe haven law was meant to protect infants, but there is no age limit under the current law. Five of the abandoned children were brought to Nebraska from out of state. Parents have traveled into Nebraska from Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida and Georgia. "
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