A Brief Introduction About Baby Dumping

     Baby dumping is when a pair of irresponsible parents decide to just abandon their newborn baby and place them where?

In an unfavorable condition, such as the dumpsters, abandoned places or even in front of someone else's house.

     Baby dumping is also considered as a form of murder and the irresponsible parents will be punished and placed behind the bars. It is also considered illegal in all countries. According to a reliable source,a baby is dumped everyday. Based on the Headquarters of the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), Bukit Aman, the cases of baby dumping increases greatly every year in Malaysia, as well as other countries around the world.

     There is no solution for baby dumping but we can prevent it from happening in many ways. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure.

How could anyone dump an innocent baby in the first place?

Number of cases of baby dumping in Malaysia

             Based on an article in The Malaysian Insider which can be found here, a total of 67 cases were recorded in 2005, 83 cases in 2006, 76 in 2007, 102 in 2008, and 79 in 2009. Although the number of cases reported about baby dumping decreased from 102 cases in 2008 to 79 in 2009, the number of cases are looking to increase substantially in the year 2010 and 2011. Moreover, the number of cases is not looking to drop and more babies are suffering the terrible fate of not being loved by the people who brought them to this world.

          Another statistic made by Seminar Kaunseling Keluarga, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai Johor shows that most cases happen around town areas such as Selangor and Johor whereas places that practices traditional style of living has the lowest cases of baby dumping.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. -Eda J. Le Shan

We are going to list out the causes , effects and ways to prevent baby dumping in the video below.

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