Baby Dumping in Malaysia Among Teenagers
As much as we want to deny it, many young people in Malaysia are having sex,
“Young people now are more open, they are not shy about sex any more – many have multiple partners and they think it is okay – so we have to accept that fact first before we can find ways to deal with the growing phenomenon and its ensuing problems
A study done by Universiti Putra Malaysia revealed that more than 300 Malay teens aged between 13 and 25 admitted to having had sex, with 85% stating that they did not regret their actions and found sex very enjoyable.
“I first had sex in Year Six (12 years old). I met this 18-year-old boy when I was going to the shops near my house and he gave me his phone number. I thought nothing of it but during the school holidays, I got really bored and called him. We went out on a date and stayed out until late at night. I was worried that my grandmother would not open the door for me, so I went home with him. That was when he pressured me to have sex. He promised to be responsible if anything happens; I was young and I believed it,” she recalls.
Then the baby dumping begins…. Child dumping is the practice of dumping offspring outside of legal adoption .The dumped child is called a foundling or throwaway. According to a reliable statistics, one baby is dumped every week. A figure that has trebled in the past decades. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness.
Lately, Malaysia is facing a serious issue regarding on baby dumping which getting more chronic and cause a lot of attention. This social problem appears every day in newspaper and mass media. From the period of January until July 2010, public were shocked, appalled, dismayed by the increasing reported cases of abandoned babies, some of whom were found dead. This incident indirectly indicated that something is wrong in our society [1]- [5]. What is actually the issue of baby dumping? It is not only just dumping new-born babies but also refers to discarding or
“Young people now are more open, they are not shy about sex any more – many have multiple partners and they think it is okay – so we have to accept that fact first before we can find ways to deal with the growing phenomenon and its ensuing problems
A study done by Universiti Putra Malaysia revealed that more than 300 Malay teens aged between 13 and 25 admitted to having had sex, with 85% stating that they did not regret their actions and found sex very enjoyable.
“I first had sex in Year Six (12 years old). I met this 18-year-old boy when I was going to the shops near my house and he gave me his phone number. I thought nothing of it but during the school holidays, I got really bored and called him. We went out on a date and stayed out until late at night. I was worried that my grandmother would not open the door for me, so I went home with him. That was when he pressured me to have sex. He promised to be responsible if anything happens; I was young and I believed it,” she recalls.
Then the baby dumping begins…. Child dumping is the practice of dumping offspring outside of legal adoption .The dumped child is called a foundling or throwaway. According to a reliable statistics, one baby is dumped every week. A figure that has trebled in the past decades. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness.
Lately, Malaysia is facing a serious issue regarding on baby dumping which getting more chronic and cause a lot of attention. This social problem appears every day in newspaper and mass media. From the period of January until July 2010, public were shocked, appalled, dismayed by the increasing reported cases of abandoned babies, some of whom were found dead. This incident indirectly indicated that something is wrong in our society [1]- [5]. What is actually the issue of baby dumping? It is not only just dumping new-born babies but also refers to discarding or