This isn't surprising.

Parents are racing to abandon their teenage children under Nebraska's safe haven law before it's re-written to permit only new parents to abandon their newborns up to a few days old.

While this is terribly sad, it's not really surprising. People have been looking for ways to avoid the consequences of their actions since Adam blamed Eve for handing him the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Parents have been so shitty for the past two decades or so that it's really not surprising that they want rid of the spoiled monsters they themselves created.

The law was not written to allow parents to abandon children that they screwed up. It was written to allow parents who, after a few days, realize that if they attempt to parent the child they created through their irresponsibility (in many cases), they'll screw the child up through indifference and neglect, or outright physical abuse.

As a new parent myself, I can understand the frantic terror that the idea of that kind of responsibility can raise. I also think that the opportunity to see the wonder of the world through the eyes of your child is the most incredible blessing that a person could be given.

I also think that those who abandon children older than a few days or weeks should be neutered.