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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(R) Marshall Dawson
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(R) Jeff Hurd
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) River Gassen
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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30%
State Senate Majority
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November 16, 2008 10:29 PM UTC
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Thankfully, Colorado already has a Safe Haven Law in place (I’d have to check statute to make sure that’s up-to-date).
I believe our state has a responsibility to act as a safety net for those most in need and abandoned children are the top of the list for me, for as you hinted at, they cannot care for themselves.
One solution might be youth parent counseling. I could be wrong, but aren’t most abandoned children the result of young single mothers? Couldn’t we expand or enhance classes with an emphasis on economics for young parents? While that will come as an expense to our state, I would think it save taxpayer money by keeping kids off the streets, away from drugs, crime, etc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Across America. I only know a handful of individuals who are Big Brothers Big Sisters, but talk about a great influence for our youth.
Parents of children with behavioral disorders need help.
This isn’t just humanitarian–its economic. If we don’t help these kids and their parents they are going to fill our prisons, having caused a lot of pain along the way.
I would be interested to know how it turns out for them.
FYI, ^^thats^^ a giant, glaring contradiction.
There is never enough money to address all of the serious problems we face. And yes, TABOR means we address even less in this state, but there is never enough money no matter what level of taxation there is.
As to what to do in this case – no idea.
…after being turned over to foster parents or an orphanage with cold gruel.
is that Nebraska, like most states, including CO, have really eliminated any safety net. We did it with TABOR. We do it when we fail to pass miniscule sales tax increases to fund care for some of our most needful, we do it when we cut medicaid coverage for mental health care and when we allow private carriers to eliminate that coverage. That is why teens and preadolescents were dropped off under NE safe haven and why they would be dropped off in other states if those safe haven laws allowed it. We do it almost every time the argument is “get folks off welfare”, “we can’t be a nanny state”.
These kids, those denied this kind of care, even if they are not abandoned, are going to be less than self sufficient for the rest of their lives and therefore a burden to taxpayers. Pay now or pay later.