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Nebraska Revising Safe Haven Law

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Today is National Adoption Day, which hopes to raise awareness about the nearly 130,000 children who are in the foster care system and need to find a permanent, loving home.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Nebraska are working in a lame-duck session to amend the state's "safe haven" law, which allows parents to abandon their children as old as 17-years-old.

The premise behind the bill was to allow parents to safely drop their children off at a hospital if they were unable or unwilling to take care of their child, reducing the number of children abandoned in dangerous locations.

The bill initially did not include an age limit and, in recent months, 34 children -- some as old as 17-years-old -- were abandoned. Legislators are working in an emergency session to put age restrictions on the law. One new version of the bill would allow parents to drop their children off at a hospital up to 3 days after they are born, another version says up to 15-years.

 There have been days where we've all reached our breaking point, but 15-years-old?


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