Monday, November 17, 2008

Do I Hear 3 Days Old, Do I Hear 6 Months Old, Do I Hear 1 Year Old, Etc., Etc., Etc.

The current brouhaha over age limits for Nebraska’s supposed safe-haven law continues, in an auction like atmosphere it appears, as Nebraska’s professional jobholders haggle over establishing age limits for getting rid of your children free and clear.  One professional jobholder says the age limit should be 3 days old, another says 30 days old, while another says 15 years old.  What type of favors do these professional jobholders have to trade with each other to establish their age limit, versus some other nitwit’s age limit, as the magical drop dead date for dumping kids, I wonder?

And the justifications offered up by the various bidders, for establishing their age limit as the age limit, border on the asinine.  To wit, one Nebraska state senator, Chris Langemeier.

At three days, “you haven’t spent all night up with them, you haven’t fed them ... everything that goes along with being a new parent hasn’t set in yet,” Langemeier said after introducing his amendment.

This fiasco provides another excellent example of why the state, any state, should not be involved in law making what-so-ever.  These fools slap together a law with no consideration at all of what the consequences may be, and when individuals dump off their kids, of any age, as the law allows them to do, all of sudden the law needs amending, and amending again.

Several age limits for Neb. safe-haven law in play

Posted by John Venlet on 11/17 at 05:16 PM
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