Baby Dumping in Malaysia

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I am proud to be a Malaysian but what happened recently to our society make me think. Our country, Malaysia has become a very popular and favourite spot for dumping, not the usual garbage dumping that we all may think of but it is baby dumping. Baby dumping is the acts of irresponsible’s person by throwing away the innocent babies at any places without taking care of the baby. Baby dumping is a chronic social crisis in our country as many cases are occurring in Malaysian society and are increasing day by day. Community especially youth have become hearthless and violent. Why this mothers among youth especially today, willing to dump their own babies. Doesn’t they have feelings even a little to their own babies? Based on Bukit Aman Police Headquarters statistics, it was found a total of 580 innocent babies were found dumped at garbage, toilet, and toilet bag between years 2000-2006. This number of cases of baby dumping has increased every year where as much as 65 baby dumping cases has increased to 83 cases in the year 2006. In the first five months, almost every day there are reports on dumped baby cases. Year 2010 also known as Year of Baby Dumping cases and this has brought a lots of question and issues. Surely, all of us have heard about fruit season and others, but do you ever heard of baby dumping season? New Year celebration and Valentine’s Day are known as mating season nowadays which leads to unwanted pregnancies among youth and obviously, leads to baby dumping cases which can be easily read in the mass media. Besides that, we can also see that many news today in newspaper are so horrifying such as ‘’Body of Baby Found in Dustbin’’, ‘’Dogs Found Baby in Trash Bag’’ and many others. When the babies were dump, fortunate... ... middle of paper ... ...d not let the baby dumping cases in Malaysia becoming more serious. We should take some steps to minimize the number of baby being dump among society. The preventive measure need to be taken now. Please do not wait for more a little time to cope this cases. The innocent babies need us. The parties like parents, community, schools, and mass media need to take the responsible to minimize the baby dumping cases from now on. Let’s hope that we would not see any babies were dump again in future. Teenagers should also keep a distance from the crimes. They have to learn to be responsible on what they have done and try to think maturely of the consequences such as the advantages and disadvantages of things. They must know how to differentiate bad things and good things. Baby dumping should be eliminated from now on and leave a peaceful and caring society for us to live in.

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