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What is ‘Baby What is ‘Baby Dumping’?

Dumping’? Baby dumping is the practice of
. dumping offspring outside of legal
adoption. The dumped child is
Causes called a foundling or throws away.
Baby dumping can also refer to
. discarding or leaving a child
Effects younger than 12 months alone for
an extended period of time, in a
. public or private setting with the
intend to dispose the child.
Preventation
Causes
.
 Teenage Pregnancy
Helps Provided
 Family break-up
 Peer Influences
 Lacking of sex education
 Parent abandoning responsibilities
 Poverty
STATISTIC
 Pornography
 67 case in 2005
 83 cases in 2006 Effects
 76 cases in 2007
 102 cases in 2008 On individual:
 79 cases in 2009
 65 cases in 2010 The women involved in baby dumping usually give birth without proper
medical procedures. They take high risks of facing infection and
bleeding in the uterus and even death.

On society:

Child dumping has shown bad attitudes of irresponsible individuals

towards problem solving. They unwilling to face what they dealing with
and solve the problem by throwing the babies after born. For your
information, some irresponsible individuals will choose to have illegal
abortion in order to prevent from giving birth. At the same time, the
abortion will keep mimicked by the others. At the end, it will also get the
negative views from society.
Preventation
“As prevention, government had drawn up
a reproductive health module for youngster.”
said the Family and Community
Development Minister Datuk Heng Seai Kie.
The module which is being worked on with
the Education Ministry was targeted on
“high-risk groups” which are the Form Three
to Form Six students. “They are the ones
who are socially active,” she said. “The
module was drawn up following a pilot
project carried out in five urban schools by
the National Population and Family
Development Board.” She added. Childcare
workers like Michelle Wong, project director
for Child line Malaysia, and P.H. Wong,
vice-president of the Association of
Registered Childcare Providers Malaysia,
agreed with the need to have better
reproductive health education for
youngsters. Most teenagers are unaware of
where babies come from and there are lots
of misconceptions on how one avoids
getting pregnant, said Michelle who has
observed that youngsters who do not have
access to prevention such as condoms “end
up wrapping cling film around their penises
because it is easier to buy them.”
Besides, a well family planning is also
prevention in this case. This is because, a
family plan allows parents to plan on the
number of babies they were to have
according to their financial abilities and
other factors which are in consideration
before having a baby. This would most
probably help in prevention on the baby
dumping cases
Individuals experiencing unwanted
pregnancies must receive support and
services. Communities should provide
supports and services needed by individuals
experiencing unwanted pregnancies. These
services must also be publicized. This was
to carry out so that the women in need can
have a shoulder to lend on and preventing
them from dumping the baby.
Helps Provided
OrphanCARE
It aims to give every orphan and
abandoned baby a chance to feel love
and care in the security of a family in
accordance to our tagline “Every child
needs a family”.
Safe Haven
Safe Haven allows parents to drop off a
newborn at any hospital in Pennsylvania
with no questions.
Rumah Harapan Al-Khaadem
A centre that provides protection,
assistance and education to orphans,
abandoned children and those from
broken families.
Shelter Home for Children
Provides residential homes for children
and teenagers who have been
abandoned, neglected, orphaned or
abused.
Rumah Hope
A home and shelter for neglected and
abused children between four and 17
years old.
Stepping Stones Living Centre
A residential centre with basic facilities to
shelter underprivileged children and
families in distress.
Established 'safe houses'
Public centers such as fire stations, police
stations, and other public areas where
women can bring unwanted children
rather than leave them in trash
receptacles.