Answer:
This report concludes that, although the intent of the safe-surrender law is admirable, it
does not impose sufficient requirements on any state agency to publicize its availability, thus
potentially reducing the law’s effectiveness. Moreover, the State’s failure to provide consistent
funding for promoting the law may further reduce its effectiveness. However, the Department
of Social Services (Social Services) did conduct a media campaign from October 2002 to
December 2003 to increase public awareness of the safe-surrender law. We also found that
many counties have developed interesting approaches to increase public awareness of the law.
Although Social Services’ initial efforts exceeded its statutory obligations, it has not developed
any further goals for conducting additional activities to publicize the safe-surrender law
because it believes it has fulfilled its minimal obligations. The department also stated that the
ongoing awareness efforts at the local level, combined with the lack of an “alarming increase”
in the number of abandoned babies mitigate the need for additional efforts. However, our
audit revealed that Social Services is using understated statistics on abandoned babies when it
concludes that further efforts to heighten public awareness are unnecessary.
Explanation:
Answer:
By allowing parents to surrender their babies confidentially
Explanation:
The parents were able to surrender their babies due to the anonymous process or privacy involved because some parents who can't take care of their child may be ashamed to surrender them or even abandon them if their is no confidentiality.
Confidentiality build their confidence to surrender their babies
which is the best decision the California's Safely Surrendered Baby Law has done to help parents who are unable to care for their babies surrender them.
Confidentiality has provide greater protection to parents who decide to surrender their babies although this children may not have access later in life about their birth parents information that they may have legal right to view because it is confidential.
