The Axiom Of Responsibility
Individuals Demonstrate Valid Behavior
By Taking Responsibility
For Themselves And Their Children

For those of you who have read our previous article "Nebraska's Safe Haven Law Was Meant For Infants, Not Teens," you may be interested to know that the Nebraska Sate Senate "met in an emergency session to change the [state's safe haven] law" and voted last Friday, November 21, 2008, to accept a revised version that "says that no child older than 30 days can be dropped off." ("Nebraska Lawmakers Vote To Limit Safe-Haven Law")

"Thirty-five children -- all but six of them older than 10 -- have been dropped off at Nebraska hospitals since the law took effect in September, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. Five came from other states, with parents traveling to Nebraska from Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida and Georgia. No infants were among the children left at hospitals, officials said."

Our hearts go out to all of these children who undoubted feel completely unloved. "Tysheema Brown drove from Georgia to leave her teenage son at an Omaha hospital. 'Do not judge me as a parent. I love my son and my son knows that,' Brown said. 'There is just no help. There hasn't been any help.'" Sorry, but love is not abandoning your child by simply dropping him off at a hospital when he is already a teenager, when he is old enough to realize that you don't even care who he ends up with. If you really can't take care of your children and they are no longer infants, arrange a legal adoption so you can do your best to ensure they end up in a family that is secure with loving caretakers.

When are the adults in our country going to start acting like adults and stop looking for ways to avoid their legitimate responsibilities? It is amazing to us that every day people make another lame attempt to get out of doing what they should be doing. Magna Sententia is truly the logical cure for our society because it demands that individuals take responsibility for themselves and their children and it allows no excuses! If you are a parent, you and only you are responsible for your children until they are 18 years of age.

Anna and Ellie Sherise
Creators of The Magna Sententia Weblog
Authors of Magna Sententia: The Logical Cure for Our Society