Preview

Abandoning a New Born Baby

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1701 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Abandoning a New Born Baby
Baby Dumping by Tharshanath Kunakai
Baby dumping occurs when a pair of irresponsible parents mainly teenagers 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. Why are these issues occurring very rapidly among our Malaysian teenagers?

People assume that teenagers know everything about sex life after attaining puberty. This concept of “assuming” should be broken down to parts because some teenagers are innocent and have no idea about sex life even after they attain puberty and why is this so? Parents and teachers are not playing a proper role in giving sex education to the teenagers, this makes teen turns out to their friends for these information. What made it worse is that their friends are also having zero idea about sex education and they just bluff to gain popularity among their clicks. Teens have high level of curiosity, this drags them to do things out of their mind like having sex and dumping their babies on the roadside, this feeling of curiosity can even make them to do things that are not supposed to do. Therefore, they should be controlled in the sense of their curiosities.

Moreover, economics nowadays rides teenager to have a pitiful life because with a limited amount of allowance, they cannot afford to marry and raise a baby by themselves. Plus, teens nowadays have a high dreams of their future so in preparing themselves for it, they don’t bother to get involve in serious relationship and expand the society.

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Teens did not know their own bodies. There were little factual resources that teenagers can depend. Few choices left for them, teenagers were guided along high risk actions. Abstinence was the approved option by parents, as it teaches teens to not be sexually active but not on protection or STDS. Another path is exploration on their own means. Exploration was dangerous, because teenagers were unaware of the consequences. Both options plunged teens’ health into a abyss. Then around 1980s, media started to reach towards the topic of sexual activity in teenagers. Many teen movies brushed against the topic about sexual activity and gave more positive responses than usual. Now, there is a rapid increase in sexual activity amongst teens. Due to this rise of sexually active teens, sexual health programs in high schools need to be updated to accommodate this change. High schools need to avoid only abstinence learning and implemented new programs for…

    • 549 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sex Education Dbq

    • 916 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Sex instruction is critical, however numerous amounts of students complete sex education classes with a mutilated perspective of sexuality and without a decent comprehension of contraception and safe-sex practices. Schools without sex education, leave children confused and often misguided. Students are left to learn through their parents about sex, who could, in turn, be misinformed themselves by never having taken a course in sexual education. Without sexual education classes, little is accomplished leaving a defective and contorted, one-sided point of view of safe sex such as abstinence. The lack of knowledge also can lead to an increase in teen pregnancy, and the spread of sexually transmitted disease, Sexual education should be taught to…

    • 916 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The increase of teenage pregnancy has placed a burden upon the argument for non-abstinent-only education. As indicated by the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, every year an estimated 850,000 teenagers become pregnant. These statistics also conclude that more than one-third of girls will become pregnant before the age of twenty, and that 78 percent of these pregnancies are unintended. Comprehensive sex education helps delay sexual intercourse between teens by offering them the tools they need to avoid unintended pregnancy.(Berne 91) “Research done by Douglas Kirby for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy shows that programs that provide teenagers with comprehensive sex education that includes a discussion of…

    • 1295 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Commentary Essay

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Sex is a common venture for everyone to experience at some point in their lives, and it comes to no surprise that teenagers are the first ones to engage in it. Sex is not a bad thing and teenagers should not be punished for it, but unfortunately most parents do not know how react when their teens come to them with sexual questions. Since teens do not talk to their parents beforehand, and vice versa, they usually decide to have sex blindly. Subsequently teenagers have neither prior experience nor knowledge about sex and…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sex Ed

    • 1110 Words
    • 5 Pages

    When I think of the word “sex” I think of intimacy, privacy, and discretion. For most teenagers sex is just what is popular at the time. They don’t understand that it is not like any other fad. Now that sex has become popular it is the parents’ job to do something to change it. Children are taught how to interact with others and the difference of what is right and wrong by their parents from birth. If parents don’t teach their kids that no amount of popularity is worth the burden of a child at a young age then no one will. In Anna Quindlen’s essay “Sex Ed” she sat with six 16 year old girls at a family planning clinic in New York, the girls knew a lot about sex but were also pregnant. Where were their parents? Schools are wasting their money on sex ed classes. Do you really want a stranger to teach your child about sex anyway? It is important for our children to be educated about sexuality, but it is not the schools’ place to teach it.…

    • 1110 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    What with internet, access and television young children and teenagers are exposed to many different things one of them is sex. This sparks curiosity, which leads to them going to go research it to find out more. The answers they find will add to their curiosity, which then leads to them wanting to experience sex. Many young teenagers are having unprotected sex. According to Laura Meckler, twenty-five percent of parents, and forty percent of teens are uncomfortable with talking about sex (Meckler, Teen Birth Rates Decline). This then leads to unwanted pregnancies and STDs. Girls don’t want to speak to their parents because they feel uncomfortable about the topic and do not want them to know about their sex life because they feel their parents would try and stop them because they don’t believe it is right for a young girl to be having sex but it is their decision and they have the right to it. If a girl wants access to birth control it is her decision and if she doesn’t want her parents to know it’s a private matter. Teenagers should be allowed to make their own decisions and if they make a mistake, they must learn from…

    • 523 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Teenagers are not being taught at home about safe sex and prevention. When a child starts puberty or even before puberty parents should discuss changes that are happening with their bodies. Explaining that it is normal to feel attraction toward the opposite sex, but acting on those feelings can result in serious consequences. Parents should also go into particular issues dealing with the dangers such as STD’s, and unwanted pregnancies. Discussions about birth control and abstinence should be discussed at an early age. Parents should talk to their teens in a comfortable setting so the child won’t feel like they are being lectured, but feel like they are in an open conversation that they can join in and ask for advice. Parents should allow time during the end for teenagers ask any questions…

    • 1188 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Studies show that the national average for an adolescent’s first sexual intercourse encounter is seventeen years old. Despite this number being very close to the average age in other industrialized countries, the United States holds a higher percentage of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) contraction than those countries (Harper et al, 2010, p. 125). It’s becoming evident that while a majority of the nation’s youth is sexually active, they are not doing so with the appropriate knowledge to keep themselves and others healthy.…

    • 1962 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sex, or the lack there of, will always be a topic among teens. Teens date, and teens have relationships. Most of these relationships will inevitably come to a point where one must chose whether to seize the moment and have sex with their partner, or they will set standards ahead of time saying they will not have sex until marriage. Every teen is either on one side of the fence or the other; they either will have premarital sex, or they will abstain. These two stances shed light on why sex is out of control today, what the world thinks about sex, and what religion says about sexual immorality. The facts are evident: teens have sex. It seems almost impossible to calculate the number of teens who are actually having premarital sex, because, of course, they don't wish to confess. Some teens though, have no choice but to confess because their actions lead to severe consequences such as pregnancy. Forty-three Percent of adolescent women become pregnant at least once before age 20 (Internet 1). That fact alone concludes that the choice of waiting for sex is in close running with the choice of not waiting. In the United States alone, more than 2,800 adolescents become pregnant each day. 1,300 of these girls give birth, 1,100 have abortions, and 400 have miscarriages (Internet 1). These astounding facts prove that sex may be considered out of control among teens today. In the olden days, around the Victorian period, sex was far from the topic that it is today. Also, during this time premarital sex was unthinkable. What happened between then and now that caused such an uproar? The world says that sex has become out of control because it was hushed for so long. But, for the last 20 years, sex has most defiantly not been hushed. If hushing up had been the cause of the trouble, ventilation would have set it right. But it has not (Lewis 92). As the world talks more and more about sex, and as the consequences of pregnancy Page 1 decrease through birth control methods, the issue…

    • 1393 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Baby Dumping Is Murder

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages

    KUALA LUMPUR - BABY dumping that causes the child's death will now be classified as murder, an offence which carries the death penalty in Malaysia.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In this modern era, the rise of abandoning babies in Malaysia has been dramatic. Almost every week we hear on the news, that a baby has been dumped in disgusting places such as alleys, roadside, and even in a dumpster. How can this act of such heinous occur in our society? A beautiful country with many races and religions, a nation which is thriving to success and becoming a powerful force in the world is constantly held back by its various problems one of it is this particular issue. Despite this, we should remain optimistic and always think of the glass being half full. There are ways in curbing this issue.…

    • 709 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Abandon Baby

    • 277 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The statistics released by Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) regarding the cases of abandon babies in our country since 2005 until January this year was very surprising. Datuk Seri Mohd. Bakri Mohd. Zinin the Director of Criminal Investigation Department in Bukit Aman was disclose the most worrying statistic. Based on PDRM statistics, in the last six year there are 517 recorded cases of abandoned babies. The statistic shows that 517 of infants discharged, 203 boys, 164 girls and 150 are imperfectly formed infants. The worse cases were reports on year 2008 with 102 cases followed by 91 cases on 2010. Over the past six years, only 37 were successful suspects under arrest to help investigations, including four this year. The phenomena of babies born out of wedlock being abandoned or thrown is becoming a worrying trend there has not been any comprehensive study carried out to find their causes and to suggest remedies to shorten the trend including having preventive programmes to youths and…

    • 277 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Baby Dumping

    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Each year around the world, almost 40 000 children are born by girls age 15 to 19. These girls may become pregnant as a result of varying situations. Many become pregnant because of early marriage, some during dating relationship while others become pregnant as a reslt of rape. While some of these pregnancies are celebrated with joy and happiness, others especially those of unwed mother are steeped in shame and prejudice. This situation gives more depression that led to baby dumping. Baby dumping is the act of abandoning unwanted baby anywhere without taking care of the baby. Recently, there are lots of reports of babies found buried, dumped in the dumpsters or wrapped in the plastic bags and thrown in the river. Although this action is very immoral, but newborn babies are still being left. So, how to prevent this action from continously happening?…

    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    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.…

    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Baby Abandonment

    • 296 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Of course, others abandon their child not because of any ethical dilemma but because they are without any sense of responsibility whatsoever. Many of these tragic circumstances can be prevented or overcome through establishing orphanages, increasing the availability of firehouses where the child can be dropped off, and by having more strict laws against the abandonment of an infant. Orphanages would help a great deal in decreasing the numbers of abandoned children. Imagine a place where a distraught…

    • 296 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays