| Given the contentious debate surrounding issues of procreation, develop an institutional policy, which can be applied to the range of treatment and research issues related to procreation.…
“Newly released data from China’s 1990 census support previous suspicions that 5 percent of all infant girls born in China are unaccounted for. It is not clear what has happened to them. Are they killed at birth, drowned in a bucket of water by the midwife, on instructions from parents who want a son rather than a daughter? Or are they given up for adoption? Or perhaps they are raised secretly to evade the one-child policy? Some evidence suggests a combination of these factors accounts for the missing girls, although officials usually insist that very few are killed” (Women’s International Network News). This is the current situation in China, the most populated country in the world. With more than one billion inhabitants, the government has installed a one-child policy to stop overpopulation from damaging…
Safe haven laws or "Baby Moses" laws allow abandonment of babies at places sanctioned by government, and are implemented all around the country. Parents are not questioned about their decision at the safe haven locations at fire stations, hospitals, and police stations. However, many parents avoid disclosing their identity and even stay away from the safe haven locations.…
The documentary of “The Dying Rooms” is based upon China’s law of the one-child policy, and how orphanages were established as dying rooms for children. In 1978, China’s Deng Xiaoping implemented the one-child policy to limit births and reduce their overall population. However, they failed to create a law that would be child friendly, if a family failed to abide by this new law. It led to women having unwanted abortions, fathers being incarcerated, and homes being deprived of electricity and water. In addition, newborn children were being left abandoned on the streets, and placed in orphanages where they would suffer neglect. The majority of children abandoned were females or disabled, since demand for males was higher. Those who were placed…
Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. It has been practiced from hunter gatherers to modern civilization, including our own ancestors. When pregnant it is understandable that couples wish for either a boy or a girl but, it is another thing if their wish of having either a boy or a girl is guaranteed to come true. Those couples who wish to have a son and has one child turns out to be a girl seem to be in a most painful dilemma. “Cultural norms dictate that daughters marry out and transfer their emotional and economic loyalties to their husband’s family (Jimmerson 1990).” In Chinese culture, son’s are known to support at old age while daughters are viewed as no source of future economic security. Although rural china has no system of old age support, farming couples without sons are faced with a great dilemma of destitution due to old age. Therefore, in certain cases, these rural couples have responded to the great dilemma of not having sons by practicing infanticide on their female neonates. “Female infanticide then became common in traditional china, through natural hardships such as famines, floods, widespread disease and overpopulation often converged with cultural norms that favored sons and encouraged hard pressed families to abandon or kill their infant daughters (Jimmerson 1990).” The costume of the traditional Chinese believes that family members should follow the ancestral tradition. If a living woman was not available, they would often go buy…
Each year in the United States, several innocent infants are murdered. I trust that the foundation of infant abandonment contributes to many factors. Individuals with various cultures have diverse convictions and perhaps poor social welfare opportunities, and can't monetarily watch over a newborn. High school pregnancies are another significant issue in today's society because infants are being killed in light of the fact that a great deal of adolescents who are pregnant experience enthusiastic, mental trouble, and the lack of maturity. Following, a ton of mothers who experience excited and mental inconveniences they feel that killing their infant will lead them to a superior life than the current hopeless life they are experiencing with an infant.…
Many children abandoned by their mothers are most often addicted to drugs. The mothers can’t afford to raise a child and afford their addiction, so they make the decision to let someone else take care of their child. “One reason why a mother may not be able to make sound decisions for her child is because she is addicted to drugs. The American Council for Drug Education states that drug addiction harms the baby and the decisions the mother makes before, during and after birth.”(1) Another reason is quite simple. It was an unwanted pregnancy and the parents didn’t want the child. The most common of this scenario is teenage pregnancy. The teenagers are too scared to get an abortion and too scared to inform their parents so instead, they hide the pregnancy as weight gain to the parents. Then when the birth occurs it is most often left in a bathroom trash can or even worse, thrown in a dumpster. But sometimes they care enough to leave them somewhere to be found and taken somewhere safe, like foster…
A lot of children become orphans because their parents give birth to them accidentally. In recent years, I have heard of a lot of such cases. I remember that there was one last week: after a woman had given birth to a baby, she put it into a plastic bag and left it in a rubbish bin. When the baby was discovered by people afterwards, it had already died. I wonder if the baby was saved, it would be another orphan. I believe that if people would like to give birth to a baby, they have to take up their responsibilities of taking care of the baby…
GENDERCIDE IN INDIA SOCIAL SCIENCE 210 LYDIA SIAPARDANI 5-30-2014 Is sex-selection an action of Gendercide? What is Gendercide? • The term used for the first time by the feminist Mary Ann Warren in her book “Gendercide: The Implication of Sex Selection”, in 1985 • It is an analogy with the word Genocide • It is defined as the systematic mass killing by any means of members of specific sex • Main victims are usually women and minorities What Happens in India • Gendercide in India is a practice that has its roots quite back to the Indian history. • It is mainly practiced by two ways: 1) Sex selective abortions 2) By killing or abandoning the newborns baby girsl • Since 1960 up to nowadays, 12 million of girl fetuses have been aborted on purpose by their parents while the exact number of murdered or abandoned baby girls is not known…
In many countries, children are considered as the future of nation and should be provided with the best things, best condition for the development and nutrition. This is quite true and in fact, in developed countries such as the United States of America, France, Britain, Austria, etc., children are always ranked as the highest priority more than other people. As “the future of country”, they must be protected far away from violence, infringement and exploitation. However, in contrast to developed countries, children in developing countries are not provided with good conditions and sometimes they are affected from something called abuse. Vietnam is also one of those countries suffering from this situation. So what is the real situation, causes and which solutions could best deal with that problem are what this paper will look into. Moreover, through it is expected that through the research the awareness of people regarding children could be much improved.…
In South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned every year and many of them are left to die on the street. Pastor Lee Jong Rak became concerned about the increasing number of abandoned babies so he decided to do something about it. Pastor Lee created a purpose built baby box attached to his house, where desperate mothers, who feel no longer able to look after their children themselves, anonymously leave them for him to look after. While the baby box concept has been widely praised, opposition to it has been growing. Some organizations in South Korea argue that it violates human rights and more should be done to address the cause of child abandonment.…
"Young Motherhood Biggest Killer Of Girls In Developing World." Bulletin Of The World Health Organization 82.6 (2004): 473. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Feb. 2013.…
Nowadays, we cannot avoid from any violence issues involving all human beings including the newborn babies. The lack of humanity becomes extremely worst as the time passed by.…
This study is important, to help those people who encounter this. And help them to survive. The possible solution is the mother and father need to talk about this situation and what will happen in the future to their child.…
Shahrizat said most cases of abandoned babies were due to weak family institution and where the responsibility of bringing up a child was left to other parties.…