Cases of baby dumping are on the rise in Malaysia, thus many authorities try to find the solution to overcome this sickening problem. I was reading an article in yesterday's paper in NST where the Malacca Islamic Religious Council has agreed male Muslims below 18 and female Muslims below 16 to wed provided there's permission from Syariah court and the parents.
Why do people get married? I give you some of the reasons :
1. Prevent out of wedlock sexual intercourse and out of wedlock pregnancy since it's immoral and sinful.
2. Undying love for each other.
3. Financially stable to get married.
4. Ready to build a family.
5. And many more reasons.
So you get married if you have the financial means, you find someone you love and you are ready to settle down.
There are those who think that it's better just to get married to prevent social illness like sex out of wedlock. Not much consideration is given whether those who are about to get married get a proper picture what marriage is all about. They don't think about this because they are driven by lust.
Of course it's good to get married to prevent social illness but the downside to this is that when people don't fully understand the concept of marriage get married, that's when all the marriage problem will arise like infidelity or early divorces.
18 year old boys getting married... do they have the financial means to look after a wife and a child without the help of his parents? he just finished secondary school for crying out loud and isn't this the time for him to get a degree? Then when he has a child with his wife, they will dump the child with the parents while the two of them will go to work to earn money. Or the two can be married without having a child and can still continue with marriage? This would be the better and acceptable scenario but it's hardly the case. Only those who are careful with their future will not get pregnant at such an early age. Then again, baby dumping and pregnancy out of wedlock won't happen if the parties were smart and careful right?
Unwanted pregnancies happen because people are NOT CAREFUL and they don't use their brains to think by taking measures to prevent such thing from happening. The least you can do is have safe sex.
Thus, i still believe providing SEX EDUCATION is the better method to give rise to awareness, unless the people are too stupid and ignorant to care.
And shouldn't abortion be cheaper than the cost of having to raise a baby? And you rather kill an innocent life by letting it fully developed only to kill it later by dumping the baby in the open compare to aborting it at an early stage? If you are gonna be evil, be the better evil and choose abortion.
My idea is all about giving awareness to those who might not be totally aware about sex and the consequences aside from only being aware of how fun it is until the baby pops out.
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