Record #:

11849

Author(s):

Mason, Janet

Abstract:

In 2001, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a safe surrender law which provides desperate parents or a single parent with an alternative to abandonment of their infants. The law is an attempt to prevent death or injury that might occur when a parent physically abandons an infant. Mason discusses how the law functions and how often it has been used.

Source:

Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 75 Issue 1, Fall 2009, p29-36, il, f

Subject(s):

Abandoned children--Laws and legislation