ENL Assignment - Baby Dumping

a.

    Through my readings regarding the baby dumping issue, I understand that baby dumping is an illegal action which goes against the humanity. Some of the people just dump their new born babies to the public places without any feeling of sympathetic, such as roadside, lanes which less people pass by or even in the garbage. They never think of the bad effects may happened on them, the baby and also the society. Do babies deserve such treatment as rubbish? Baby dumping is considered as crime, but this act is also cries for aid.

Recently, there are a lot of cases about baby dumping happened all around the world, majority among the teenagers. Baby dumping is a seriously wrong path because it may bring a lot of bad images in the society. As we all know, most of the baby dumping cases arise among the young ladies because of their careless and innocence. Some of the ladies get pregnant without their wants and acknowledgements. These ladies are confused over their decision either to born the baby or abort him or her. Eventually, they intend to born the baby out yet abandon him or her at public places. This action is so cruel.

The government has paid much attention and efforts in order to encounter this social issue. The government has been organizing all kinds of campaigns and events to solve this social problem. For example, campaign for the teenagers about how to protect them, prevent under aged sexual intercourse and pregnancy at teenage ages, campaign for the young ladies of the impacts of baby dumping besides the campaign for the guys regarding the responsibilities as a man and ways to prevent pregnancy.

Apart from this, the communities should take parts in preventing baby dumping from occurring by supporting and reassuring the mothers. Undeniable, parents do play the most important role in reducing the baby dumping cases. Parents are the good examples for the children during the period of growth. Parents should give their children a proper education since small and teach them the good moral values in their life. Appropriate protections and cares toward the children must be given by the parents so that the percentage of pregnancy among teenage can be reduced effectively.

Anyway, the abandonment of babies is impossible to be excused. The defendant will be charged and fined under the laws due to the illegal abandonment of a baby. This offence results in a maximum of seven years of jail or a fine of RM5000 or both. Apart from the fines, these people will also be excluded and boycotted by the society. This is not only happened to the individual but also his or her family members. So, why should we obey the rules and do something illegal?

b.

Baby dumping is usually happened among the young couples or those who comes from poor family. Some of the couples get pregnant because of careless and they do not have any heart prepare to the idea of parenthood. Their thinking is still naïve and they are not ready to take the responsibilities and tasks as a father and a mother. This results in the ignorance of their responsibilities toward the baby. Thus, they decide to dump the baby without much considering. They feel that baby will add on their puzzles and is a huge and heavy burden for them to carry.

 New mothers, especially young ladies will feel stressed over the changes to become a mother. Becoming a mother is a new challenge for most of the ladies. It does add on burden to the new mothers directly, indirectly or both. Thus, the mothers become emotional and depressed uncontrollably. These sufferings cause them to think negatively then finally make the wrong decision, which is dump the baby. In this condition, some of the man is rather to ignore his wife or encourage her to do such illegal action. In fact, the man should show their cares and loves to his wife in order to prevent baby dumping from happening.

Apart from this, poverty of family is also one of the factors that caused the abandonment of babies. Some of the families are unable to support the appearance of new member, which is a baby in their family. Thus, they are forced to sacrifice and dump the innocent babies. They are unable to afford the expenses toward the baby, such as milk powder, pampers, medicines and so on. They also think of the amount they have to spend on the child in the future for his or her studies. All of these factors result in the dumping of baby to be occurred.

Influences from peers and movies are also cause baby dumping case to increase day by day. Nowadays teenagers are easily affected by the others and this result in the mimicking to be happened. They try to search for a partner and try to have sexual intercourse with him or her. They just enjoy the feeling of trying out new things and they feel that it is very fun to challenge the illegal actions, which is under aged sexual intercourse. Without a proper prevention and protection, pregnancy may occur. Thus, they become lost and finally choose to dump the baby without taking care of him or her.

        i.            c i.   There are many impacts of baby dumping on the society. First of all, baby dumping will affect the society normal growth. The action of baby dumping will be mimicked by people all over the world and this issue will become wider day by day. More and more people will choose to dump the baby when they encounter any financial problems or emotional changes. Most cases of baby dumping are using the way that throws a baby into the trash and these shows the cruelty of human. Eventually, negative views from society appear.

In addition, when a baby is being dumped, he or she loses a proper home for him or her to grow at the same time. They baby might be kidnapped by people who use child to earn money or just taken by other people who see the baby or being sent to orphanage. Without a proper family, it is impossible for a child to grow healthily and happily. This will then results in the increasing of crimes all around the world due to the negative deeds from the bad-influenced children. Eventually, people will not be able to own a stable and comfortable life.

When the criminal level in a country increases drastically, for sure the government will have to spend more resources in order to solve it. This makes the government forced to shift some resources, such as people, finance, and equipment from some other issues.

Besides that, when a baby is being dumped, he or she might have lost his or her life. It is so sarcastic when a couple has decided to give birth of a baby but then dump him or her without bothering his or her safety. This couple is considered as murderer because they kill the baby indirectly. This situation will result in people always stay in scared and worries because they do not know when and where they may see a dead body of baby.

        i.            ii.    Moreover, baby dumping will influence the nation too of course. If the case of baby dumping increases momentously in a certain country, it will reduce the population in the country when the baby dumped is dead. The lack of population causes the growth and development of the country to be dragged behind. The country will not be able to move forward to achieve its aims and goals. Follow by this, all kinds of social and economic problems may arise, such as crimes like robbers and economic recession, and then lead to lose of jobs and so on.

In addition, the reputation of the country will also be spoiled if the baby dumping issue is serious. People from other countries will not think of migrating to a country which is facing a drastic baby dumping issue. The confidence from people all around the world toward the country will also be affected if baby dumping issue increasing without any solutions. People will not have the interest to invest in the country which having great social issue like baby dumping. Thus, the nation incomes will be affected and reduced.

When the nation incomes are being influenced, the quality and standard of living of people will be affected too. The government is not able to support and give more subsidies to the people in a country yet they charge a higher rate of taxation to the people. This makes the people to be suffered all the time and cannot purchase their wants and needs. As a result from this situation, the market will be undergone a drop in demand and the suppliers will be losing much of money.