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Parents Give Up Youths Under Law Meant for Babies

OMAHA — The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here. By Sept. 23, two more boys and one girl, ages 11 to 14, had been abandoned in hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln. Then a 15-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl were left.

The biggest shock to public officials came last week, when a single father walked into an Omaha hospital and surrendered nine of his 10 children, ages 1 to 17, saying that his wife had died and he could no longer cope with the burden of raising them.

In total last month, 15 older children in Nebraska were dropped off by a beleaguered parent or custodial aunt or grandmother who said the children were unmanageable.

Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies — the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers — but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.

The spate of abandonments has prompted an outcry about parental irresponsibility and pledges to change the state law, which allows care givers to drop off children without fear of prosecution. But it has also cast a spotlight on the hidden extent of family turmoil in the country and what many experts say is a shortage of respite care, counseling and especially psychiatric services to help parents in dire need.

Some who work with troubled children add that economic conditions, like stagnant low-end wages and the epidemic of foreclosures, may make the situation worse, adding layers of worry and conflict…..

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis.

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Of relevance to SD engineers, I think, WiMAX, UWB, 3G etc., will probably fail to be sufficiently profitable. This will hurt QCOM and NextWave Wireless (WAVE). WAVE may go out of business.

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Of relevance to SD engineers, I think, WiMAX, UWB, 3G etc., will probably fail to be sufficiently profitable. This will hurt QCOM and NextWave Wireless (WAVE). WAVE may go out of business.

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Of relevance to SD engineers, I think, WiMAX, UWB, 3G etc., will probably fail to be sufficiently profitable. This will hurt QCOM and NextWave Wireless (WAVE). WAVE may go out of business.

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Of relevance to SD engineers, I think, WiMAX, UWB, 3G etc., will probably fail to be sufficiently profitable. This will hurt QCOM and NextWave Wireless (WAVE). WAVE may go out of business.

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Of relevance to SD engineers, I think, WiMAX, UWB, 3G etc., will probably fail to be sufficiently profitable. This will hurt QCOM and NextWave Wireless (WAVE). WAVE may go out of business.

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If you stick some numbers:

Total national debt = 11 Trillion

@5% APR, Payments = 550 Billion per year

Seems Repayable at present.

But, Past 2011, the pressure of Social security+Medicare will stress the budget.

My guess about likely scenarios:
1. Social security tax rate may be extended over all income
2. Social security & medicare payments may be means tested
3. Capital gains rate may be increased (towards income tax rate)
4. Some sort of customs/excise tax may be placed on imports to placate protectionist interests.

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If you stick some numbers:

Total national debt = 11 Trillion

@5% APR, Payments = 550 Billion per year

Seems Repayable at present.

But, Past 2011, the pressure of Social security+Medicare will stress the budget.

My guess about likely scenarios:
1. Social security tax rate may be extended over all income
2. Social security & medicare payments may be means tested
3. Capital gains rate may be increased (towards income tax rate)
4. Some sort of customs/excise tax may be placed on imports to placate protectionist interests.

[bsrsharma]

If you stick some numbers:

Total national debt = 11 Trillion

@5% APR, Payments = 550 Billion per year

Seems Repayable at present.

But, Past 2011, the pressure of Social security+Medicare will stress the budget.

My guess about likely scenarios:
1. Social security tax rate may be extended over all income
2. Social security & medicare payments may be means tested
3. Capital gains rate may be increased (towards income tax rate)
4. Some sort of customs/excise tax may be placed on imports to placate protectionist interests.

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If you stick some numbers:

Total national debt = 11 Trillion

@5% APR, Payments = 550 Billion per year

Seems Repayable at present.

But, Past 2011, the pressure of Social security+Medicare will stress the budget.

My guess about likely scenarios:
1. Social security tax rate may be extended over all income
2. Social security & medicare payments may be means tested
3. Capital gains rate may be increased (towards income tax rate)
4. Some sort of customs/excise tax may be placed on imports to placate protectionist interests.

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