Baby Dumping in Malaysia: causes and solutions (People's Daily Online, 14th Sept 2010)

This is an article written by Jia Ning Tan from People's Daily Online regarding baby dumping. As a summary from this article, :

• How this phenomenon happened?

1. Over exposure to sexually liberal western culture (that is why, this research is finding whether culture is one of the factor that caused baby dumping)
2. Premarital sex and have baby during banned relationship is very shameful in the culture of Malaysia.
3. Girls who are pregnant rejected by family which let them to no family support and left stranded.

• Where the babies being dumped?

1. Rubbish bins
2. Doorsteps (but however, further reading showed that there are so many other places baby being dumped. The recent place is inside the KTM(train) )

• Initiatives by the NGOs and government?

1. Government : implementing sex education in school for youths (therefore this research too focus on whether this initiative by government successful or not, and at the same time too this research also focusing on the "Kami Prihatin" campaign).
2. Religious bodies geared up conducting frequent checks on hotel rooms and others to prevent social activities without marriage.
3. NGOs: Kewaja Rehabilitation Centra,K.L;

- Centre for women's shelter

- Helping pregnant girls/women to recover psychologically and physically

- Equipping those girls with skills so that easy for them to search for jobs