This AP news piece just came out:

'LINCOLN, Neb — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a
bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35
children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at
state hospitals....'

["Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law," Nate Jenkins,
Associated Press Writer – Fri Nov 21, 6:13 pm ET]

Dr. Szasz discusses the issue of child abandonment in 'Cruel
Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted':

'The most common medieval method of disposing of unwanted children
was abandonment. Typically, a parent or servant would leave the
unwanted child in or near a church, many of which provided special
receptacles, built into their walls, where infants could be deposited
unobserved. In the eighteenth century, about 14,000 foundlings a
year were officially registered in the city of Lyons alone. In
fact , it was the ubiquity of child abandonment that gave rise to the
foundling home, the first social welfare institution ostensibly
devoted to child care, but actually serving the interests of the
rejecting parents. The mortality rate in foundling homes was
staggering, most children dying within a few weeks or months of
admission....

'...Child abandonment, functioning as a kind of postnatal birth
control, has remained a common practice to this day. In the United
States, unwanted children are often deposited in trash cans or left
in bus stations, train stations, or hospitals. In China, at least
700,000 infant girls are abandoned annually.'

Now that there is a 30-day age limit, I suppose parents will need to
go the extra step of having the child diagnosed by a psychiatrist
before abandoning him to the "system." This should give child
psychiatrists plenty of work! In the same volume, Dr. Szasz
describes the pattern of desocialization and diagnosis of
a "troubled" teen:

'The young person who fails to engage in some activity others value,
and for which they show admiration and appreciation, in effect opts
to become a dependent, exploitative, or predatory person. As the
reality of his uselessness dawns on him, the young adult begins to
feel inferior to siblings and friends and to envy their competence
and success. To avert the painful realization of his justified lack
of self-esteem, he protects himself by means of a dangerous
psychological defense. He tells himself he is better than others,
becomes arrogant and conceited (psychiatrists call
it "narcissistic" ), and embraces the logic of hostile
entitlement: "I am not a useless person. Others are unworthy of my
doing anything for them. They have more than I do and ought to feel
guilty and help me." Or worse still: "Everything the producers
have, they have gained by exploiting others. I have a right to rob
them of their possessions. " When such behavior is indulged, it
results in the young adult's becoming a sort of "adult-baby prima
donna," playing the role of the most useless and yet most important
member of the family.

'This process of desocialization usually starts during adolescence.
Parents and peers often respond [to] it by treating the youngster as
an individual with "special problems." Gradually, others expect
less and less of him, and he does less and less for them and
himself. Once past adolescence, such a young adult is likely to
slide into continued dependence-- on parents, as long as they support
him, then on relatives or social and welfare agencies. Somewhere
down this path, he commits or threatens to commit a violent act,
against himself or others, which the representatives of the adult
world can no longer ignore. Then, he is brought into the presence
of a psychiatrist who is likely to diagnose him as schizophrenic and
launch him on the career of a mental patient. My point is that
becoming socialized 'and' desocialized both require practice. An
adolescent is not yet a functioning member of adult society. It is
an error, therefore, to speak of his "dropping out." First, he
must "drop in," and that requires much effort. The adolescent who
fails to accomplish this by his late teens or early twenties will
discover that his family, psychiatry, and society are likely to make
it increasingly difficult for him to accomplish it later....'

In the book 'Coercion as Cure,' Dr. Szasz discusses the case of
Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, who met this fate, when her father
had her committed and lobotomized.