News tagged with 'Foster Care'

A 14-year old Iowa girl was abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska's safe haven law. She is the 17th child and the first from another state to be abandoned. However, because the child is from Iowa, not Nebraska, the safe haven laws legal protection may not apply.

So far this month, 15 children, most of them teenagers, have been abandoned at hospitals under the state's new Safe Haven Laws.  The dire dilemma underscores how few mental health services are available for these out-of-control teens, and their out-of-options caregivers. 

The Omaha man who left his 9 children at an area hospital for protection under the state's Safe Haven laws talks for the first time to an area television station. He says he did it so they wouldn't be homeless.  Parents are routinely dropping off their teens and relinquishing custody - so far 16 in Nebraska since the law went into effect in July. Is this a forecast of more to come or just bad parenting?

A new study finds men are twice as likely to adopt a child then that of a woman in the same age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics.