Nebraska´s Abandoned Families
It was very difficult to find this article, because all articles were related with the presidential candidacies of USA.Well I chose this topic because I did not know anything about the state of Nebraska, and I could notice that lawmakers and their decisions have a lot of power in that state. Even I thought that the article was related with the necessity and the pain of some families, and that's interesting for me.
There is a law that "allows parents to surrender unwanted children to the state". "The most incredible, It's that in few months more than two dozen children as old as 17 have been abandoned, because parents say that their children are uncontrollable". This law will be rewritten because the idea is to protect only newborns.
Nebraska needs a change in the justice system, and it needs a good service for all people (women, youngs, babies) that are suffering. Generally the state acts when children have mental dysfunctions, or they have been abused or mistreated, but they need to see facts and then they act.
The main problem is that government spends money trying to take care of these children, but it doesn't try to prevent or to combat the problem. If children have a bad behavior this is because the family has problems that probably can affect them. There are probabilities of that children in the next years will be in prisions as adults.
So this topic is really important to be aware about our families and the function of our society.
This article was taken from: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05wed3.html?ref=opinion
Two new Words:
Lawmaker: Legislator
Neglect: Fail to care, or fail to do something.
2 comments:
Hi!
This article is really very important. I'm agree with you because the most important thing is to provide solution for young people with bad behavior on time. Perhaps with programs that the government can to supply.
I think that obviously Nebraska needs new laws. It cannot be possible that children will be abandonated by their parents. When someone decides to be mother or father must to be responsable and take care of his/her childreen all the life.
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