The cases of baby dumping in Australia have increased significantly. It was estimated that a dozen babies were abandoned each year in different states of Australia. This issue has been vehemently debating and prompted “baby safe haven” facilities across Australia.
This programme aims to ensure the unwanted babies being abandoned legally into a safe and caring environment. Such programme has been implemented in Europe, United States and Japan. The children will be put up to adoption after a cooling-off period during which the mother can change her mind.
AMA president, Dr Andrew Pesce revealed that this programme should be considered as an alternative to mothers in order to prevent the abandoned babies from dying. He also urged the government to take prompt action to redress this problem.
In my opinion, “baby safe haven” is a suitable programme to ameliorate the baby dumping situation. As what I read from the newspaper, there are about 50 cases of baby dumping in Malaysia in the first half year of 2010. Therefore, I strongly recommend that this programme should be implemented in Malaysia so that the cases can be curtailed.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as the saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure”, it would be better if the couple could perform pregnant prevention during sexual intercourse.
We do have similar programme: baby hatch facilities.
ReplyDeleteIs it? But I never heard it before.
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