Editor 's note : Campbell Brown anchors CNN 's `` Campbell Brown : No Bias , No Bull '' at 8 p.m . ET Mondays through Fridays . She delivered this commentary during the `` Cutting through the Bull '' segment of Wednesday night 's broadcast . CNN 's Campbell Brown says 35 children have been dumped since Nebraska made its law . ( CNN ) -- Right now in the state of Nebraska , the governor is literally begging people not to bring their teenage children there to dump them , so that the state then has to care for them . But it 's happening . It 's happening a lot . Here is the back story : . You may have heard of safe haven laws . The laws are intended to allow parents to leave an infant at a hospital anonymously and not face prosecution . The goal is to try to prevent unwanted babies from being abandoned . The problem is that unlike other states , Nebraska set no age limit when it passed its safe haven law a few months ago , so people are literally dropping off kids of all ages at Nebraska hospitals . Watch Campbell Brown 's commentary » . In some cases , they are driving to Nebraska from other states to abandon their children . The state Legislature this week is expected to change the law because of this to now impose an age limit . But the 35 kids who have already been dumped are now part of a system . They 're old enough to know what 's happened . One social worker said some had begged their parents or guardians not to leave , saying they might not understand why they 're being left , but they know they 're being left . No change in Nebraska 's law will deal with the fact there are clearly a lot of parents out there willing to walk away , or they 're so overwhelmed they do n't know what else to do . One mother who drove from Georgia to leave her son at an Omaha hospital said , `` Do n't judge me as a parent . I love my son . '' What about family , friends , church , neighbors , social services in your home state ? Do all of these options really not exist for that mother ? Maybe they do n't . Maybe she really did feel that helpless . Nebraska can and will change its law this week , but it seems to me it has just opened a Pandora 's box . We have to look and look hard at what is apparently a failure by our states to offer families any other recourse . What is happening in Nebraska should be a wake-up call . We have to look at why in just the few months that law was on the books , 35 children were left behind . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Campbell Brown .
The law allows children of any age to be left without penalty . Parents have been called from out of state to dump children . Brown questions what would lead a parent to abandon a child . She believes state and local social services need to be improved .