Children Are Not Safe Havens

A newborn boy has just been declared a safe haven baby! His mother requested all rights be given to the Department of Human Services. If moms do not wish to keep their child, they should be adopted by safe havens. Even though they are still abandoning their children, every state should adopt a safe haven law because many of them would be saved and could go to better homes. A survey from the HHS Administration for Children and Families found that 65 babies were abandoned in public places in 1991 and 105 in 1998. They also found that 8 of those were found dead in 1991, which increased to 33 in 1998. Mothers might abandon their babies like this because their too ashamed to give them to safe havens. However, 13 more were found dead in Houston, Texas in 1999. Within an eight year period, more than 180 babies were abandoned or found dead. …show more content…
In response to these cases, Texas lawmakers adopted a safe haven law so that mothers could leave a baby in a safe place without worrying they would be prosecuted. With safe havens now in Texas mothers can now give up their child to the state where they would be adopted and go to promising homes. Another example that shows that they should adopt a safe haven is no baby deserves to be left for dead in dangerous places. New Jersey was sorrowed to know that newborns are sometimes neglected in life-threatening situations, and some of these children have been harmed or have died as a consequence of their abandonment. Since then, New Jersey has worked with legislators to draft the NJ Safe Haven Infant Protection