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Arguments Against Safe Haven Laws
Safe Haven Laws were created for parents of a baby they cannot care for. It allows parents to drop off their unwanted baby in a safe place, such as a hospital or fire station. The nurse in the emergency department in a hospital will take an extensive medical history of the parents, and then the nurse will refer the parents to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) Services. The parents can also drop the baby off as anonymous at which in that case the DCF will put an ad in the newspaper in case the parents change their mind about the custody of the baby, but they must act quickly because there is a limited timeframe in which they could do so. If the parents’ names are known the DCF is required by law to contact the parents about terminating
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