Porn and Baby Dumping

There has been recent buzz in the papers about the increasing number of baby dumping occurrences. In case you don’t know what it means, its abandoning children. This offense can easily charge you with attempted murder in which a couple has been the first in the country to be convicted of this felon.

I know I’ve had the opportunity to grow up in a Canadian school system that educates you on many sexual health issues at a very age. As akward as it was to sit through Sex Education as early as 11 years old, we touched on issues like incest, molestation, rape and understanding what our rights were. High school was much more explicit when it came to Sex Education but it was necessary to understand the repercussions of sexual activity, especially for some experimenting at such a young age.

You can’t hide the world from the young any more, you have to teach them to adapt and trust that they can make proper decisions guarded with information to empower them. I just wish the government would stop scapegoating and point fingers at “immoral” things and deal with the fact that the spread of information will always supercede a single (nonsensical) opinion.

I stand behind the need for sex education in all schools in Malaysia, regardless of religion!

Read the article below:

Porn a major reason behind baby dumping, say cops

KUALA LUMPUR: Widespread access to pornography and weakened family ties have led to an increase in baby dumping in the past five years, according to Federal CID director Comm Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin.

“Youth today can easily have access to such material online, even through their mobile phones.

“Parents also need to guide and educate their children on sexuality,” he said yesterday at Bukit Aman.

Comm Bakri also urged the public to work closely with the police in identifying such cases.

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On a side note: if that’s the case, then how come the porn industry in California doesn’t seem to have a baby dumping problem?