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Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects

Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Annette R. Appell, Column Editor Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects Annette R. Appell INTRODUCTION This is the third of a three-column series examining the safe haven law movement–legislative enactment of state laws designed to provide locations and procedures for parents to drop off their infants anony- mously and without criminal liability. The first column surveyed the statutes enacted in most of the fifty states (Appell 2002). The second column assessed the fit between the primary risk these statutes were de- signed to address–the unsafe abandonment of newborns–and the solu- tions these statutes offer (Appell 2002a). That column concluded that the statutes were both overbroad in their scope and too narrow in their solutions, but the statutes did provide some pertinent devices to limit risks of unsafe child abandonment (Appell 2002a). This column ad- Annette R. Appell is Associate Professor, William S. Boyd School of Law, Univer- sity of Nevada, Las Vegas. The author wishes to thank Adam Bult, for research and editorial assistance, and Pam Mohr, for editorial comments. Adoption Quarterly Vol. 6(2) 2002 http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J145  2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1300/J145v06n02_06 67 68 ADOPTION QUARTERLY dresses the effects http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects

Appell, Annette R.
Adoption Quarterly , Volume 6 (2): 10 – Dec 1, 2002
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LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Annette R. Appell, Column Editor Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects Annette R. Appell INTRODUCTION This is the third of a three-column series examining the safe haven law movement–legislative enactment of state laws designed to provide locations and procedures for parents to drop off their infants anony- mously and without criminal liability. The first column surveyed the statutes enacted in most of the fifty states (Appell 2002). The second column...
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LEGAL INTERSECTIONS Annette R. Appell, Column Editor Safe Havens to Abandon Babies, Part III: The Effects Annette R. Appell INTRODUCTION This is the third of a three-column series examining the safe haven law movement–legislative enactment of state laws designed to provide locations and procedures for parents to drop off their infants anony- mously and without criminal liability. The first column surveyed the statutes enacted in most of the fifty states (Appell 2002). The second column assessed the fit between the primary risk these statutes were de- signed to address–the unsafe abandonment of newborns–and the solu- tions these statutes offer (Appell 2002a). That column concluded that the statutes were both overbroad in their scope and too narrow in their solutions, but the statutes did provide some pertinent devices to limit risks of unsafe child abandonment (Appell 2002a). This column ad- Annette R. Appell is Associate Professor, William S. Boyd School of Law, Univer- sity of Nevada, Las Vegas. The author wishes to thank Adam Bult, for research and editorial assistance, and Pam Mohr, for editorial comments. Adoption Quarterly Vol. 6(2) 2002 http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J145  2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1300/J145v06n02_06 67 68 ADOPTION QUARTERLY dresses the effects

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