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'Safe Havens' For Babies Questioned March 10, 2003 (CBS) The so-called 'safe haven' laws that have been enacted in 42 states to allow the anonymous abandonment of newborn babies may be causing serious, unanticipated problems. Most of the laws were enacted hastily over the past three years, often in response to a tragedy, and without the states sufficiently evaluating their effectiveness first, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute said in a report. 'By providing a 'no hassle' route for ending parental responsibility, safe-haven laws encourage mothers to conceal their pregnancies, give birth unsafely and leave their children anonymously, undermining established and effective child welfare and adoption policy,' the report says. The laws' goal of protecting unwanted newborns is admirable, but they don't address the factors causing babies to be abandoned. They also send a signal that abandonment is OK, and they prevent abandoned children from ever learning their medical or genealogical histories...
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