A lot of children become orphans because their parents give birth to them accidentally. In recent years, I have heard of a lot of such cases. I remember that there was one last week: after a woman had given birth to a baby, she put it into a plastic bag and left it in a rubbish bin. When the baby was discovered by people afterwards, it had already died. I wonder if the baby was saved, it would be another orphan. I believe that if people would like to give birth to a baby, they have to take up their responsibilities of taking care of the baby…
| Given the contentious debate surrounding issues of procreation, develop an institutional policy, which can be applied to the range of treatment and research issues related to procreation.…
“Newly released data from China’s 1990 census support previous suspicions that 5 percent of all infant girls born in China are unaccounted for. It is not clear what has happened to them. Are they killed at birth, drowned in a bucket of water by the midwife, on instructions from parents who want a son rather than a daughter? Or are they given up for adoption? Or perhaps they are raised secretly to evade the one-child policy? Some evidence suggests a combination of these factors accounts for the missing girls, although officials usually insist that very few are killed” (Women’s International Network News). This is the current situation in China, the most populated country in the world. With more than one billion inhabitants, the government has installed a one-child policy to stop overpopulation from damaging…
The documentary of “The Dying Rooms” is based upon China’s law of the one-child policy, and how orphanages were established as dying rooms for children. In 1978, China’s Deng Xiaoping implemented the one-child policy to limit births and reduce their overall population. However, they failed to create a law that would be child friendly, if a family failed to abide by this new law. It led to women having unwanted abortions, fathers being incarcerated, and homes being deprived of electricity and water. In addition, newborn children were being left abandoned on the streets, and placed in orphanages where they would suffer neglect. The majority of children abandoned were females or disabled, since demand for males was higher. Those who were placed…
Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. It has been practiced from hunter gatherers to modern civilization, including our own ancestors. When pregnant it is understandable that couples wish for either a boy or a girl but, it is another thing if their wish of having either a boy or a girl is guaranteed to come true. Those couples who wish to have a son and has one child turns out to be a girl seem to be in a most painful dilemma. “Cultural norms dictate that daughters marry out and transfer their emotional and economic loyalties to their husband’s family (Jimmerson 1990).” In Chinese culture, son’s are known to support at old age while daughters are viewed as no source of future economic security. Although rural china has no system of old age support, farming couples without sons are faced with a great dilemma of destitution due to old age. Therefore, in certain cases, these rural couples have responded to the great dilemma of not having sons by practicing infanticide on their female neonates. “Female infanticide then became common in traditional china, through natural hardships such as famines, floods, widespread disease and overpopulation often converged with cultural norms that favored sons and encouraged hard pressed families to abandon or kill their infant daughters (Jimmerson 1990).” The costume of the traditional Chinese believes that family members should follow the ancestral tradition. If a living woman was not available, they would often go buy…
In South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned every year and many of them are left to die on the street. Pastor Lee Jong Rak became concerned about the increasing number of abandoned babies so he decided to do something about it. Pastor Lee created a purpose built baby box attached to his house, where desperate mothers, who feel no longer able to look after their children themselves, anonymously leave them for him to look after. While the baby box concept has been widely praised, opposition to it has been growing. Some organizations in South Korea argue that it violates human rights and more should be done to address the cause of child abandonment.…
GENDERCIDE IN INDIA SOCIAL SCIENCE 210 LYDIA SIAPARDANI 5-30-2014 Is sex-selection an action of Gendercide? What is Gendercide? • The term used for the first time by the feminist Mary Ann Warren in her book “Gendercide: The Implication of Sex Selection”, in 1985 • It is an analogy with the word Genocide • It is defined as the systematic mass killing by any means of members of specific sex • Main victims are usually women and minorities What Happens in India • Gendercide in India is a practice that has its roots quite back to the Indian history. • It is mainly practiced by two ways: 1) Sex selective abortions 2) By killing or abandoning the newborns baby girsl • Since 1960 up to nowadays, 12 million of girl fetuses have been aborted on purpose by their parents while the exact number of murdered or abandoned baby girls is not known…
In many countries, children are considered as the future of nation and should be provided with the best things, best condition for the development and nutrition. This is quite true and in fact, in developed countries such as the United States of America, France, Britain, Austria, etc., children are always ranked as the highest priority more than other people. As “the future of country”, they must be protected far away from violence, infringement and exploitation. However, in contrast to developed countries, children in developing countries are not provided with good conditions and sometimes they are affected from something called abuse. Vietnam is also one of those countries suffering from this situation. So what is the real situation, causes and which solutions could best deal with that problem are what this paper will look into. Moreover, through it is expected that through the research the awareness of people regarding children could be much improved.…
"Young Motherhood Biggest Killer Of Girls In Developing World." Bulletin Of The World Health Organization 82.6 (2004): 473. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.…
Some parents may find giving a child up for adoption difficult, but how about leaving a baby on the side of the road? Or throwing a child into a river? No, this isn’t some sort of old ritual, it happens all over the world today, and is beginning to become a major issue.…
Nowadays, we cannot avoid from any violence issues involving all human beings including the newborn babies. The lack of humanity becomes extremely worst as the time passed by.…
For many in the developed world, excluded from their national adoption system for reasons such as age, inter-country adoption may be one option to start or expand their families. On the surface this system, if well regulated, seems to offer a positive outcome for both children and prospective parents. However, as with any system involving several national jurisdictions, the potential for fraud, corruption, and exploitation is ripe – the worst case scenario being the widespread kidnap and sale of children into adoption. There have been numerous stories from Cambodia, India, Ethiopia and Guatemala of ‘orphans’ being adopted by Western parents only for it later to emerge that they had living parents, in whose care they were happily living. Parents coerced, bullied or mislead into giving up their children or, at the worst end of the spectrum, children being stolen. Most recently, in April, two Malaysians were arrested for allegedly selling babies to a Singaporean woman, who was operating as a middle (wo)man in the transaction.…
This study is important, to help those people who encounter this. And help them to survive. The possible solution is the mother and father need to talk about this situation and what will happen in the future to their child.…
Shahrizat said most cases of abandoned babies were due to weak family institution and where the responsibility of bringing up a child was left to other parties.…
Baby dumping have a very big effect on the well being of the babies, it affects the baby both physically and in their mental states as well. Baby dumping leads to kids starving since nobody is there to take of them and they might have no one o give them food nor water and always end up dying in which this increase the number of infants mortality in the country…