Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2008
Abstract
Sandi Pruitt’s study on infant abandonment in the wake of safe haven legislation is timely, well executed, and, through no fault of her own, deeply dissatisfying. Despite its precision, the study’s findings do not help to answer the nagging question of whether safe haven laws work.
As anyone familiar with these laws long has recognized, they are almost impossible to evaluate. Designed to redress the problem of neonaticide—a problem that is shrouded in the secrecy that accompanies concealed pregnancies and abandoned newborns—the law’s solution is to maintain the secrets of those who might otherwise endanger their newborns.
Automated Citation
Michelle Oberman,
Comment: Infant Abandonment in Texas
, 13 CM 94
(2008),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/1032