Safe Haven Unsafe for Society

Can one ask for a better example of liberalism gone amok? Metaphorically, our coal mine canary has fainted and fallen off the perch. The recent news about Nebraska's so-called Safe Haven law, through which parents have legally abandoned children as old as 15, reveals the true nature of liberal "change" and "progressive" tinkering with societal norms. Change, change, change! Americans voted in the candidate for Change. Well, we've got it now. Nebraska has abandoned the enforcement of a parent's responsibility to their own child. No risk to society there...

I am old enough to remember the "bad ol'" pre-feminist '60s. It seems that every sitcom had an episode -- Dick Van Dyke for example -- in which the couple discovered or thought that their marriage was somehow invalid and hence their child was illegitimate. As a child I knew from the look of horror on Laura Petrie's face that this a BAD THING. Funny how things change.

I am not a professional journalist with access to Lexus-Nexus, so I'm going to have to reach back here into the past with only the aid of my memory. I recall it was about 20 years ago that there was much talk about the plight of poor unwed mothers. Society's shunning of these poor victims was said to be cruel. They needed financial help from the tax payer pocket book, and the reigning in of an unenlightened public's judgementalism regarding these girl's life choices and predicament. A little legislative magic... Presto Change-O! Done! Problem cured. Hmmm... Or not.

Once it became economically and socially feasible to be an unwed mother, why, of course there was an explosion in their ranks. Was that really so hard to predict? Well apparently it is for liberals. Today it seems de rigueur for poor teenage black girls to be unwed mothers. Today we have "Baby Mommas." Are there anymore black female contestants on American Idol that aren't baby mommas?

Given a large population of immature, irresponsible people weighed down with the millstone of an infant, and without a strong cultural ethic to live up to one's responsibilities, it is not surprising that there would then be a lot of abandoned infants. It has been a couple of years since the "D.A.R.E. to Keep Kids Off Drugs" bumper stickers on police cruisers were replaced with "Don't Abandon Your Baby" bumper stickers. I ask, what does the need for such a sticker tell you about the state of a society? And if you don't have the same answer I do, I don't want to be in the same society as you.

On the news, whenever they interview Dems about this Safe Haven debacle, I hear the phrase "unintended consequences," as if no one could have predicted this. Any half-wit without a sociological axe to grind could predict such things. If it wasn't predicted it was only because no one could believe that liberals could be THAT naive.

And so I gotta ask: What might be the "unexpected consequences" of gay marriage? Or unconditional talks with our nation's enemies? Or the elimination of the right to defend oneself with firearms? Or the refusal to enforce our own borders? Or the refusal to drill for new oil in our country's own territory? Or to allow teachers to indoctrinate our children with their political views? Or to elect a president based on wanting to feel good about yourself rather than on his experience and qualifications? Or...