A Mom's Heartbreaking Choice

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Uploaded by on Mar 30, 2009

Lavennia Coover abandoned her 11-year-old mentally ill son under Nebraska's safe haven law. Harry Smith spoke with Coover about her choice to give up her son.

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  • give him some weed

  • If she had not done this and her son had killed an animal from the neighborhood, or another child she would be accused of other things. I can see how and why she did this and it was courageous.

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  • i agree with her

  • Americas health system is terrible.. Why doesn't taxes pay for medical anomalys??

  • Yeah, I'm sure that being dumped by his mother like trash... Really helped that boy with his depression

  • Worthless bitch

    

  • @mrmike677 your so right

  • It's sad that in the United States that private insurance will not care for seriously ill people like this. If he was a danger to himself and his family, and the private insurance will not cover adequate treatment...

    This is a disgusting lack of legal action. This is America. We're supposed to have a safety net.

  • Parents in these scenarios are not to blames completely. The Health care system is to blame. I work at a mental hospital, and parents who have private insurance are only allowed to stay for a few days. However, the parents that have medicaid can stay for almost 2 weeks. I have heard doctors tell parents to give up custody of their child to the state, so they can get the treatment needed.

  • this is so sad just take both u have 2 hands use them

  • @ChristinaDuffer No I don't think they should just "give up" on them but the mental health system is inefficient. If her other children or herself were at risk she was right to get him help the only way she could. They might be pissed, but people can't go around in life making decisions based off of what people "might" feel in the future. He might also be grateful that he got his life back, if his treatment is successful.

  • Maybe we should just put them out of their misery.

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