UCSB professor Laury Oaks examines how baby safe haven laws — originally framed as a response to infant abandonment—are now ...

Thirty-one babies across the country were abandoned in dumpsters, backpacks and other dangerous locations in 2021, according to the nonprofit National Safe Haven Alliance. Twenty-two of them were ...

Safe haven boxes give parents who can’t care for their newborns a place to surrender them and now lawmakers are hoping to ...

Kentucky's 51st Safe Haven Baby Box opened at the Murray Police Department on Tuesday — the box is a place where a parent can anonymously surrender a newborn without facing ...

TO EASE ANY ANXIETY A PARENT IN CRISIS MIGHT HAVE ABOUT HANDING THEIR BABY OVER TO SOMEBODY IN. PERSON. COMMUNITIES ARE LOOKING INTO SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES. IT’S A CLIMATE CONTROLLED DEVICE.

Missouri is working to step up its efforts on placing additional drop-off boxes for parents to anonymously surrender their ...