Baby dumping issue

What is baby dumping? 

Well, baby dumping is a social problem that arises due to the acts of stranding the babies with no intention of taking care of it. Baby dumping is not only a rising social problem in Malaysia but as well as other countries. According to the police headquarters in Bukit Aman, for Malaysia alone the statistic from the year of 2000 to 2006, the total number of baby dumping case is 580 babies. This number of baby dumping are expected to increase every year where as much as 65 baby dumping cases has increased  to 83 cases in the year 2006. Other than Malaysia, it also recorded that Indonesia has the highest percentage of baby dumping. In the wake of this disturbing reports of baby dumping, the question that comes to mind is ‘WHY is this scenario is happening in a modern and technology era that we lived in’? Do we, the society, play a good role in handling this issue or perhaps we just take this issue as light as feathers since we got nothing to do with it? And do we have even have a little of sympathy when we see how these innocent babies’ lives being ripped out by this shameful act? 

Every time when this issue is being reported in the newspapers or posted in any of the social network, what would you do? Do you just read it and ignore it or do you read it and have the urge and motivation to stop this problem? Well, if you do have the responsibility to stand up for this issue, then I have a few suggestions that might be effective for you to practice.

First and foremost, I shall brief you on the factors that causes baby dumping. This is because by knowing the factors we can apply prevention, as prevention is better than cure. One factor that leads to baby dumping is teenage pregnancy. But it is important to know that not all teenage pregnancies are unwanted. This is because some of the teenagers get married at an early age and are determined to have a perfect family institution comprising of husband and kids. While some of them take sexual intercourse lightly and do it for fun. When they get into an illegal relationship that causes pregnancy, it is often that none of the partner in the relationship wants to keep the baby because of the shame they have to face if their relatives find out and this can lead to baby dumping.

Rather than that, poverty is also another factor that causes baby dumping. People who lives in a poor social welfare system and are not financially capable of taking care of the baby are most likely to commit baby dumping. This is because  raising the child as in this modern and technology era are burdening to them. As parents, they know they are responsible in giving their child a better life and education which needs a lot of money to be invested for their baby future and this is one of the problem they do not know how to overcome.

Thus, after knowing the factors that contribute to baby dumping, we can design some ways to reduce this scenario from increasing in number. Some of the prevention that can be implemented is that :

-Sex Education

*All the people need to have the knowledge and education about the sex to make sure the number of baby dumping cases are decreased.

*this education will provide them knowledge and aware them that sex will results in unplanned and unexpected pregnancies

-Responding to Unwanted Pregnancy

*Individuals experiencing unwanted pregnancies must receive support and services. The women who are facing this problems need to give shelter where they can be secured, guided and motivated.

* They should be supported to make sure they can change and build new life.

-Build up the DNA database

* DNA bank is the new and effective approach to lessen the baby dumping.

* To identify the parents of the baby by matching the DNA database, as it can aware and frightened people from doing this crime

So why don’t we take a step back and look at the real world that we are facing. Are we so mean and cold-hearted to watch these innocent lives being ripped out due to irresponsible people who cannot face their own mistakes? Maybe while you are reading this post you might just wonder how I, just a petite human being, can make a change and difference. Well actually you can because the very first change starts in you!