BABY DUMPING

...BABY DUMPING...

CHILD is a priceless gift from Allah SWT.However,baby dumping is a social crisis and has a chronic increase time by time as many cases are occuring in Malaysian society.The baby dumpinf refers to discarding or leaving alone for a certain time being or another word is their parents did not take care of them.Almost everyday there are reports on dumped baby cases,If you don believe it you can check on the front page of the newspaper or see it on nightly news.

Baby Dumping in Malaysia

I think the most cases about baby dumping was come among teenagers because it always seen to be involved in this situation.

Baby in the Bathroom

Teenage parents give birth in a motel room and leave the child for dead in a dumpster.Next,a girl gives birth in a school bathroom at night after that 
they will throw the baby in the bathroom or dustbin.This cases must take seriously to make sure this cases can control among teenagers.

One factor that leads to child dumping is teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage or underage girl becoming pregnant.This pregnancy of teenagers are a mere result of the gratification of sexual urges. That pregnancy might not happen only if studies were prioritized rather than having relationships with the opposite sex. No premarital sex, no early pregnancy. Worst thing about this is that it is the child that will suffer. If not aborted, they are dumped by their biological parents.

Another factor is the family break-up. Family break-ups happen after a long period of misunderstandings, fighting and unhappiness. Sometimes they happen suddenly and it is hard to understand why there needs to be change at all. Children are mostly affected by this kind of situation. If both their mother and father decided to a divorce and one cannot raise their child alone, tendency is that they will dump their child. This child will become homeless and found himself alone.

There are others way to prevent this cases can be reduced in our society and country.For example,

•  Sexuality Education
          Baby dumping presumbly results from unwanted pregnancy. To prevent baby dumping, it is therefore ultimately necessary to educate individuals about sexuality. we support age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, and recomamends that school and communities provide comprehensive sexuality education to all youth and families.
• The government
          The government also must involve overcoming this problem from step by step and taking this matter seriously. baby hatch is indeed good way to help single mother who cannot afford to take care the baby and nowadays 'sekolah harapan' and Kewaja has already been opened for person who involved unwanted pregnancy.
• Campaign
  To raise awareness of this issue to the public. One of the campaign's focus is "Kami Prihatin". It was launched on 23rd March 2010 and activities were organized to promote child protection policy, producing a documentary and publishing community awareness advertisements in Utusan Malaysia.

As a conclusion,baby dumping is morally and physically wrong. Teenagers should keep a distance from crimes. They have to learn to be responsible for what they have done and think maturely on the pros and cons before jumping to a conclusion. They should be able to differentiate what is good what is bad. All in all, parents and schools must play their roles in fighting baby dumping cases by imposing enough sex education for their children and always beware on their children's actions. We should put a stop on baby dumping and start to see these infants as gifts to be treasured. After all, they are your own inheritor.

We would like to share a video with you about baby dumping. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EKR9VVkZieg