{"id":4282,"date":"2008-10-21T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/10\/21\/us-state-curtails-child-dumping-an-odd-law"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:53:00","slug":"us-state-curtails-child-dumping-an-odd-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/10\/21\/us-state-curtails-child-dumping-an-odd-law\/","title":{"rendered":"US state curtails child dumping &#8211; an odd law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports, at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7681139.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7681139.stm<\/a> that Nebraska has changed its laws &#8211; so that you can no longer &#8216;dump&#8217; unwanted children on the state. The limit has been altered to only 3-days old &#8211; but before that it was 18 years &#8211; as the BBC site says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law allowed parents and guardians to leave children up to the age of 18 at hospitals without an explanation or interference from the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must admit this seems rather extreme &#8211; but it did make me think: who &#8216;owns&#8217; children and is responsible for them? Is it just parents &#8211; or all of us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports, at http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7681139.stm that Nebraska has changed its laws &#8211; so that you can no longer &#8216;dump&#8217; unwanted children on the state. The limit has been altered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-ethics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}