Safe Haven. Mary Wiltenburg.
by Wiltenburg, Mary; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 18Family. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Abandoned children -- Legal status, laws, etc | Infants -- Crimes against | Infants (Newborn) | Pregnancy -- UnwantedDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Wherever their thin cries go up, they make ghoulish headlines. Already this summer, newborns have been abandoned at a Washington, D.C., construction site and on a Pennsylvania roadside. Some have been found dead, others nearly so. Every state has its horror stories. As of this month [July 2003], most states have new laws designed to prevent such tragedies." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses "safe haven" laws, which allow "mothers to legally abandon newborns at hospitals and other designated places," and examines their effectiveness.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Safe Haven, July 24, 2003; pp. 14-15.
"Wherever their thin cries go up, they make ghoulish headlines. Already this summer, newborns have been abandoned at a Washington, D.C., construction site and on a Pennsylvania roadside. Some have been found dead, others nearly so. Every state has its horror stories. As of this month [July 2003], most states have new laws designed to prevent such tragedies." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses "safe haven" laws, which allow "mothers to legally abandon newborns at hospitals and other designated places," and examines their effectiveness.
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