answer:Holy [at]#*T that is $&#*ed up, I read the article and cannot believe what it say’s, that is almost a ludicrous as the Patriot Act. Here is a site that states all the laws similar in all the United States. You are not misunderstanding the article. I had to re-read it to make sure myself what it actually says. And what it says is that you can abandon your children, I think that the premise of these “Safe Haven” laws, is that they were created as a solution to parents that can not take care of their children. They were put into place to protect the children, not the parents. But it seems that the Nebraska law is ambiguous and courts said that they are willing to open it back up to litigation. I am really beside my self at these laws, in California you can legally abandon your child at a hospital, or other designated places within 72 hours of birth. This is really messed up, people should take responsibility for their actions. I just had a pregnancy scare with a girl I am seeing, and I told her that in light of my actions I would take whatever responsibility was mine in the matter if she did end up pregnant, I told her it is her body and not mine, so what ever choice she made I would live up to my part of the responsibility of our actions. Thank God that she was just two weeks late, and not pregnant, but still, I was ready to deal with it. These Safe Haven laws take everything that I just said and flush it down the toilet. no one had these options before in all the history of man. 2000 years ago, if you didn’t want your child you threw it into a ditch, or sold it into slavery. The global morals of this millennium do not allow that to a large degree, especially in the United States. I think that law makers when creating these laws made them in an effort to curb infanticide and illegal abortions, that can cause pain and distress and even death on the mothers side. Why do we skirt responsibility these days in America, It blows me away how people don’t think that they reap what they sow. I am in distress over this whole thing and need to go smoke a cigarette, and yes I know it will kill me, I take responsibility for my actions.