Baby

Baby abandonment is becoming a trend to Malaysians' unmarried couple especially teenagers. Among the factors that contributed are lack of knowledge in sex things, lack of knowledge in religion, worried about public judgement and many more.

Baby is like the pearl and gem to married couple, but unfortunately not to the unmarried couple who think babies as burden/worthless item to them.  Unmarried woman and teenagers are normally involved in babies’ abandonment as they are lack of knowledge in sex things. Sex is known as taboo among Malaysians community, so this subject is not widely discuss. So baby abandonment usually started with unmarried couple making love with their partner and then the woman or the girl got pregnant. After the baby was delivered by their mother, this couple will abandoned their innocent baby by putting the baby at places like on the doorsteps, on the sidewalk and even in rubbish bins. So what happened to the baby? Base on the record from Ministry of Woman and Family, only a quarter of the babies who have been abandoned are found alive. Most all of the time, the babies were found dead due to many reasons such as eaten by stray animals and as we all know, the immune system of the newborn baby is still weak so it would not likely survived in such new  environment.

Lack of knowledge in religion also one of the factors that have contributed to babies’ abandonment cases, because in all religion, the followers are encouraged to do good things and not the other way around and religion taught us to appreciate new life as a gift from God. If the couple holds to the principles of their religion, for sure they would not do this cruel and sinful thing. Somehow, the couple might be ashamed to face the community and worried about public judgment if they raise a wed-lock child and in the end they will decided to take an easy way out by abandoning the baby. Other factors like incapable to hold the responsibility of raising the baby yet and wanted to keep up their family’s dignity or good name are also the factor to the rising of babies’ abandonment cases in Malaysia. 

In conclusion, everyone should take action to combat this social illness. Even a small step can change the measure of a distance, means even a small action can change the situation.