Are You Sick of Your Teen? Family Vacation to Nebraska!

According to a loophole in a Nebraskan law, frustrated parents can dump their children off at hospitals and other safe haven locations without repercussion. This law was meant to be for new parents who did not want to care for their new born baby, they could drop it off and not be left with an abandonment arrest. All 50 states have this law, but Nebraska is the only state that does not have an age limit cut off (mostly 72 hours old). The Nebraksan law just states "child." So technically, anyone under the age of 18 is considered a child. People have even resorted to crossing state lines to get rid of their nuisance. A recently widower dumped 9 of his children age 1-17 at a hospital.

What Schmerwick wonders, how do you just abandon a 17-year-old? Do you just tell him to get out of the car and speed off? Do you make him wear a blindfold so he doesn't know where he is? Do you just simply tell him you are going to Disney World and the hospital is really Cinderella's castle? He's never been to Disney, he won't know the difference! Its not like you can put him in a basket and leave him on a front door like you did with your newborn. The 17-year-old knows where he lived, has his address and phone number memorized. I don't get it. Do you just not want to pay for his college? You put in 17 years, at least wait one more year and then you can just legally kick him out or make him get a job to buy you cigarettes.