Baby Dumping

INTRODUCTION

Definition of Baby Dumping

Every day there is a report that found the baby in the toilet near the river at the banks of drain and other place without any sense of humanity. This phenomenon of baby dumping ( Figure 1.1) is really worrying and shows a very serious moral decay among the people of our generation. The persons who commit such inhumane acts should be punished. However, the capital punishment proposed for dumping babies is not going to solve the problem. To solve it, we should find out the root cause of this rampant phenomenon. Blaming the mother alone is unfair. These people could be victims of circumstances. The pattern of baby dumping appears similar, if taken from the context of newspaper reports.

What is actually the issue of baby dumping? It is not only just dumping new-born babies but also refers to discarding or leaving alone, for an extended period of time, a child younger than 12 months of age in a public or private setting with the intent to dispose of the child. Adolescence is the transitional stage of development between childhood and full adulthood, representing the period of time during which a person is biologically adult but emotionally not at full maturity. The ages which are considered to be part of adolescence vary by culture, but in the United States, adolescence is generally considered to begin around age 13, and end around 24. The worse situation of this issue also can be seen when a girl gives birth in a school bathroom at night then throws the baby into the garbage or in the toilet bowl, also when a baby flung in the chicken coop, a baby swaddled in newspapers left squalling by a fly-infested dustbin, a baby abandoned under the harsh sun beating down on a wet rice field, a baby stuffed into a cabinet drawer, a baby left on the doorsteps of people's home with notes or in a mosque. It is so embarrassing, sad and worst scenario that happened in our society.

The baby dumping issue arise when the woman had her unplanned pregnancy and been pressured by the question