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Lawmaker Wants to Help Crazy Parents Abandon Their Children
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A South Carolina lawmaker wants parents to be able to abandon their kid until age 5. Credit: Getty Images
Uncertain about this whole parenting business?
Not to worry. Have a child and see how you like him. Take five years. If you're not completely satisfied, just return the child to the nearest police or fire station, outpatient medical facility or place of worship.
No law enforcement officer will call on you. In fact, state Rep. Chip Limehouse of South Carolina wants you to abandon your unwanted child.
It's better than killing the kid.
If parents are so crazy that they would kill their children, Limehouse tells CBS News, let them abandon them instead. That's why he proposes state legislation to enable parents to discard their kids -- without penalty -- any time during their first five years of life.
South Carolina's current return policy only gives you 30 days to make up your mind as to whether or not you want to keep your kids. Within that month, you can drop them off at any of the aforementioned locations without penalty.
Limehouse tells CBS News he's haunted by the Aug. 16 murder of two children in Orangeburg, Fla., where Shaquan Duley allegedly suffocated her 2-year-old and 18-month-old sons in an Orangeburg motel, then strapped them into their car seats and let the car roll into a river to cover up their deaths.
"If parents get up against the wall so bad that somehow their mind twists, and they believe in their twisted way that murdering their children is their way out of their situation, hopefully this new law would provide a pressure valve for this sort of evil behavior," the Republican from Charleston tells the network.
He says he suggests age 5 because, by that time, most children are in kindergarten and interacting with other adults who might spot a family's problems.
David Laird of The Children's Trust of South Carolina tells CBS the Orangeburg case calls for in-home early education and other measures, but that the bill Limehouse intends to introduce when the South Carolina Legislature convenes in January needs to be studied.
Limehouse, the father of two, tells the network he just wants to keep the choice between parenthood and murder out of the hands of dangerously unstable people.
"It chills you to your marrow to read the accounts of what happened to these poor children," he says.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
9-01-2010 @ 5:12PM
Denise said...Much better this way, but I think 5 might be a little old, as pertains to emotional repercussions. Save the children.
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9-02-2010 @ 12:50AM
mhow86 said...I know from personal family experience having a kid and deciding a couple years later you don't want that kid seriously screws that kid up.I have to ask, knowing ahead of time that you're not ready to be a parent, is it better to have an abortion or give him away to adoption or wait 5 years, decide you don't want the kid, pass him off to different members of your family and ultimately have him turn out to be seriously mentally disturbed, talking about suicide and or killing members of your family in graphic detail?
9-01-2010 @ 5:25PM
Heidi said...I'm really not sure that this will work. Anyone whacked out enough to kill their kids probably still will. They'd be too crazy to take the time to think of this alternative. The only ones who will be ditching their kids are the stupid lazy bimbos who would rather party with the new boyfriend. At least the kids will be safer this way.
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9-02-2010 @ 7:58AM
irene said...lol a return policy on kids...why only five years tho might as well make it 18 then lmao
almost as funny as christopher titus and his late term abortions...very funny man check him out
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9-02-2010 @ 7:19AM
Wendy said...Instead of making New laws, let's uphold the Old laws. How about "fixing" the broken Foster System (DCF or whatever it's called in your State) and the School Systems BEFORE we start putting more kids under their control.
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9-03-2010 @ 2:19PM
Lauren said...This makes just about as much sense as putting up a net under the San Francisco bridge. If you're crazy enough to kill your kids, you're going to do it. Even those with no supportive families, have friends, doctors, church leaders, or whoever who could help. This law wouldn't change that. It might save some kids, but I doubt it'd make a much of a difference.
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9-28-2010 @ 4:39PM
Holly M said...How about taking the money that the state would use to support these poor, unfortunate children and use it to either counsel these 'baby mills' or put them on meds so maybe they won't have the urge to kill their own children! And if they are a lost cause, take those kids away and make the women undergo an irreversible tubal ligation! If they can't take care of the ones they have, no need for them to attempt to have more!
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1-04-2011 @ 2:14PM
louder said...Anyone who even thinks about abandoning their child....should do just that. That child deserves a better home and life.
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