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Baby dumping among teenagers in Malaysia

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CHILD is a priceless gift from Allah SWT. However, baby dumping is a social crisis and has a chronic increase as many cases are occurring in Malaysian society. The baby dumping 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. Based on Bukit Aman Police Headquarters statistics found a total of 580 babies were found dumped between year 2000 to 2006. This number of cases increase every year where as much as 65 baby dumpingcases has increased to 83 cases in the year 2006. In the first 5 months, almost everyday there are reports on dumped baby cases.You read it on the front page of the newspaper or see it on the nightly news...a newborn baby found in a back alley. This scenario had been more serious from day to day although there are a lot about this in the mass media.

Mostly,among teenagers always seen to be involved in this situation. Teenage parents give birth in a motel room and leave the child for dead in a dumpster. A girl gives birth in a school bathroom at night. throws the baby into the garbage or in the toilet.These stories relate to one of the most frightening realities of our culture today: some children are viewed as problems to be thrown away rather than gifts to be treasured. More recently, the tragedy of Baby Dumpinghas begun to be addressed by state legislatures throughout the nation. For example, a number of states have passed laws to provide funding, care, and services for dumped children. These legislative actions have also established 'safe houses' - public centers such as fire stations, police stations, and other public areas where women can bring unwanted children rather then leave them in trash receptacles. The hope is that, by offering an alternative to dumping, women might leave their children with people who can help the baby. Surprisingly, these cases have got a lot of attention from the community. So, what are the best opinions and ways that should be taken to prevent this scenario from spreading?

Child dumping is the practice of dumping offspring outside of legal adoption.The dumped child is called a foundling or throwaway. According to a reliable statistics, one baby is dumped every week. A figure that has trebled in the past decades. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness.

One factor that leads to child dumping is teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage or underage girl becoming pregnant.This pregnancy of teenagers are a mere result of the gratification of sexual urges. That pregnancy might not happen only if studies were prioritized rather than having relationships with the opposite sex. No premarital sex, no early pregnancy. Worst thing about this is that it is the child that will suffer. If not aborted, they are dumped by their biological parents.

Another factor is the family break-up. Family break-ups happen after a long period of misunderstandings, fighting and unhappiness. Sometimes they happen suddenly and it is hard to understand why there needs to be change at all. Children are mostly affected by this kind of situation. If both their mother and father decided to a divorce and one cannot raise their child alone, tendency is that they will dump their child. This child will become homeless and found himself alone.

Poverty is also another factor that causes child dumping. Persons in cultures with poor social welfare systems who are not financially capable of taking care of a child are more likely to dump him/her. Political conditions, such as difficulty in adoption proceedings, may also contribute to child dumping, as can the lack of institutions, such as orphanages, to take in children whom their parents cannot support. Societies with strong social structures and liberal adoption laws tend to have lower rates of child dumping.

Psychologists believe that even short-term dumping can damage a child’s emotional and social development. “Even short separations could have a negative effect on the child’s ability to form close relationships,” said Dr Michael Boulton, a child psychologist at the University of Keele. “Babies often form attachments with their mother before birth. They know their mother’s smell and turn to them when anxious or distressed. If they suddenly find they have gone it can be very damaging.”

Dr Boulton said that mothers who dump their children normally do so under desperate circumstances. “Having one’s first child is the most stressful experience someone can go through. Young mothers can be vulnerable, especially if they are alone and do not have the experience or social support to cope.”

PREVENTION

Long-term solutions to the problem of baby dumping require efforts at prevention. Steps must be taken to prevent unwanted pregnancies, provide assistance to parents in crisis, and increase communication within families and communities.

• Sexuality Education

Baby dumping presumably results from unwanted pregnancy. To prevent baby dumping, it is therefore ultimately necessary to educate individuals about sexuality. We supports age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, and recommends that schools and communities provide comprehensive sexuality education to all youth and families.

• Responding to Unwanted Pregnancy

Individuals experiencing unwanted pregnancies must receive support and services. Communities should examine their capacity to provide the range of supports and services needed by individuals experiencing unwanted pregnancies. These services must also be publicized; people cannot use services that they do not know about. Finally, education efforts should strive to increase communication among youth, families, and communities. Increased communication may minimize the shame and secrecy associated with an unwanted pregnancy and make young people more likely to take advantage of supports and services in their families and communities.

The other ways to prevent this problem are :

- focusing the prevention programs towards the regions and categories of population with increased risks of dumping;
- setting up a coherent reporting and monitoring system as regards the dumping and the risk of abandonment;
- hiring social workers in all sanitary units depending on the number of doctors existing in the unit;
- hiring community medical assistants and physicians in all the communities presenting increased risks of dumping;
- standardizing the written forms and the procedures of registering women which get admitted in maternities in order to give birth;
- elaborating procedures for keeping records of mothers and children without identity papers and creating a database on this matter.

" Having sex after marriage is safer and it can reduce the abortion and baby dumping rate. It also helps us be more responsible and not to have sex just to satisfy our lust "

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My name is Zaidi Yusof, a student of final year degree with honors in Political Science at National University of Malaysia. I was born on 9th June 1988 at Tuanku Nur Zahirah Hospital. I live at Kampung Tanjung, Batu Rakit Kuala Terengganu. I am the fourth child among 8 siblings. My first education was at Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Rakit Kuala Terengganu and move to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Kompleks Mengabang Telipot, then continued my study in STPM at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Ibrahim Fikri. Now I'm studying at National University of Malaysia. My hobbies are playing badminton, debate and reading. I like green and blue colour. My ambition is to be a lecturer and aspires to become a leading political analysts of the country. My favourite food is Pizza. Now, I stay in College Ibrahim Yaakub at UKM. I am involved with PERMATA as a President. I am studying at FSSK. I like to watch the story such as Titanic and "Jalan Pintas Ke Neraka". My co-curriculum activity is Debate Club. I can speak in English, Malay, Urdu, and Mandarin. My idol in political world is Tun Mahathir, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mahatma Gandhi. The best lecturer for me is Madam Rufizah Hashim because she understands the needs of students. Philosophy in my life is "Dont wish it were easier, wish you are better, dont wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills, dont wish for less of challenge, wish for more wisdom....

My name is Mohd Izzat Azren B.Mohd Azman. I was studying at National University of Malaysia in the programme Human Divelopment. I was born on 15 April 1989 at Tanjung Karang Hospital, Selangor. I live at Kampung Parit 6 Sungai Besar, Selangor. I am the fisrt child among 5 siblings. My frist education was at Sekolah Kebangsaan Parit 6 and move to Sekolah Agama Menengah Tinggi Batu38. Then, i was continued my study in form4 until form6 at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Simpang Lima, Selangor. My hobbies are reading books, listening music, and playing futsal. My favourite colour is blue. I like the clean invironment and meets my friends.

My name is Muhammad Shamsul B. Abd Ghani.A122860, a student of final year degree with honors in political science at National University of Malaysia. I was born on 7th March 1988 at Hospital Besar Gerik. I live at Kampung Pahat Dalam. I a'm eighty child among 10 sibilngs. My first education was at Sek.Rendah.Keb.Kerunai and move to S.M.K Sultan Idris Shah 11.Gerik. Now i'm studying at UKM. My hobbies are reading books, watching the movies. I like red and brown colours. My ambittions is to become a business man. It is because, i think as a business man, i has to work to provide my family wity money and all other necessity that my family wish. And addition...i think the average salary for business man jobs about 10,000 (mostly) thousands per montly. average business man salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits.


Hi .. My name is Winda Ariany. My friends used to call me Winda or Ndaa only. I was born on 5 December. I'm the fourth child among 4 siblings. Now I am studying in the National University of Malaysia with course is International Relations, I choose it because I like the country-related, cultural, social, political, economic and globalisation. I come from Indonesia Padang West of Sumatra. I am studying in Malaysia does not mean I do not like to study in Indonesia but I want to see and feel more a collaborative culture and atmosphere of a different life.
My favorite food is Bakso (meatballs), Sate Padang, and I like durian waauu....
Oh ya.. about my favorite color, I love all the colors are there, because for me there are no bad colors in this world, everything beautiful and has the feel of an art in itself.
My hobbies are writing words about Love, in love with anything, Love to Allah, Rasullalloh, Parents, families, Sweet heart, Teachers, Friends, and others.
Because Love is a Life.

There are three effects of Baby dumping.That is effects on individuals, the Baby and society. The effect of individuals is cause by illegal way of aborting the child and left a bad effect on them because of the wrong path, they use to abort the baby just like herbs and alcoholic substances.So, the individual will have high risk of death caused by bleeding and infection on mothers womb's. A professional consultant Gynecology, Prof. Dr. Harlina Halizah Siraj, from "Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia"(HUKM),said this illegal abortion does not take into account the health's aspects could cause harm because it does not follow the procedure that are conducted by unprofessional groups. Another way is dangerous and is not clean by inserting foreign objects into the womb. Women involved who do abortion without proper medical procedures take high risks facing death following infection and bleeding in the uterus. In addition, it is potentially experiencing bleeding in the stomach which can cause the woman unconscious or worse death. Womb also suffered injuries when doing an abortion because those who perform them are traditionally not qualified will use sharp objects such as wood, twigs or wooden sticks. Bleeding sometimes can not be detected quickly, but take a long time. There are not aware of them until they bleed unconscious.

Dr Zainul said, the long period of time, it is difficult for pregnant women to do abortion because the process can also cause bowel and uterus problems when sticks channel ovarian one clogged. If a woman is pregnant she may experience a pregnancy outside the womb. For those who had suffered injuries before, the uterus can rupture according to the statistics of death among infants who are not removed by those spontaneously and cause death.Otherwise, the effects of abortion also can cause psychological effects on the mental and emotions after marriage, especially depression, especially when age is often thought of as the content is never removed. Dysphonic effects include experience in the womb, which raised pain more than experience during the menstrual process.


EFFECT ON INFANTS
*Infant mortality rate is higher due to medical care is not perfect
* according to statistics infant mortality by unresponsible person in 2 years ago, had increased 135 case from 2008 to 2009.
*cause contempt, regarded by society as adults
*problem if you want to marry because there is no guardian
*difficult for schools because there is no birth registration


EFFECTS ON SOCIETY
-Cause the abortion will be mimicked by others.
most cases of baby dumping in the county are using the same way that removes a newborn baby into the trash. This shows there is replication of their cruel way to remove the baby into the the trash.
-the case has become wide.
-negative views from society.

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A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable.

A fun experience is often an enjoyable one and an enjoyable experience is usually a memorable one. Therefore, it stands to reason that one of the ways to create a memorable experience is to make it a fun experience. In this article, we’ll take a look at how adding a bit of “fun” into the mix can help us produce more engaging, and hopefully more successful, websites.

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The Fun Theory

Some time ago, I was sent a link to a Volkswagen sponsored project called The Fun Theory. This website featured a contest where users could redesign or rethink something they encounter in everyday life — adding some “fun’” into it. The purpose was to see if they could get more people to use it simply because it was enjoyable to do so.

While there are a number of great videos on the site, the one that I love the most is called Piano Staircase. In this video, an experiment takes place with a flight of stairs in a subway station. Beside the stairs is an escalator. As I am sure you can guess, far more people would use the escalator, rather than the stairs, during their daily commute.

Volkswagen’s “The Fun Theory” website challenges people to redesign something they encounter in everyday life by adding “fun” into it, and to see if more people will then use it.

One evening, while the station was closed, the steps were turned into giant piano keys that would make a sound when they were stepped on. As commuters exited the station the next day, they were greeted with this giant piano staircase and many of them opted to try it instead of using the escalator. In fact, 66% more people than normal used the stairs while the installation was in place — an amazing increase by anyone’s standards.

Adding Fun To Our Websites

When I saw this video, the first thing I thought about was how applicable the lesson of adding fun is to the work we do as Web professionals.

By using fun to create an enjoyable user experience, we can offer people a delightful experience that they will not only remember, but one that they may tell others about as well.

Let’s Define “Fun”

Perhaps I should back up a bit and explain what I mean by fun. I am not suggesting you turn your client’s website into a circus production (unless, of course, your client is a circus). I am simply suggesting that changes and additions that add a bit of fun into the interactions or elements of a design can go a long way in helping the websites you develop become more enjoyable to use, and more memorable overall.

“Fun” is not the same as “silly”. You can add a layer of delight and enjoyment to the user experience without making your client seem childish or unprofessional. The trick is knowing how much fun to add, where best to add it, and when to recognize that you’ve gone too far.

Let’s look at some examples of websites that do a great job of using fun to create both enjoyable and memorable experiences for their users.

Improving On The Ordinary

There are many pages common to almost all websites. By taking a typical website page or experience (such as the “about us” page, or contact form), and making it fun and memorable, you can set that website apart by improving on the ordinary.

Take that aforementioned “about us” page, a fixture on pretty much any website. Mutant Labs, a UK based design and development firm, do a great job of adding a sense of fun and personality to what too often becomes nothing more than a boring company bio page.

Mutant Labs adds a fun sense of personality to the typical “about us” page. Scroll over the team members to see even more fun!

The website for Get Satisfaction does a wonderful job of turning the typical “case studies” page into an interactive experience with their “Wheel of Satisfaction.”

The “Wheel of Satisfaction” is a fun twist on the typical case studies page.

How about the “contact us’” page? When was the last time you built a site that didn’t have one of those? English Workshop, “an organisation which provides English language learning opportunities”, styles their simple contact form to look like a machine’s control panel, tying it in nicely to the website’s “workshop” theme.

English Workshop’s “contact us” form works great alongside the rest of the design elements from the website’s workshop theme.

Smashing Magazine’s own contact page is also an example of a fun approach. The page is fun from top to bottom, with a lighthearted, informal tone for the page’s greeting (“Hello. Let’s talk.”) as well as questions, and cartoon representations of Smashing’s management team.

By taking the common pages of a website, and finding ways to add fun to what would otherwise be a typical experience, you can instead create a unique and memorable impression upon your sites’ visitors.

Frustration = Fun?

Another page typical to most websites is the “404 error” page. By adding something new to this page and showing some personality, you can help diffuse an otherwise frustrating situation. You can see some great examples of humorous and effective 404 error pages in a previous Smashing Magazine article.

In addition to a humorous, frustration-diffusing message, a good 404 error page can also include links to key pages of the website that users are most likely looking for. Done correctly, you can make your user smile, and help them find their way back to the content they will find valuable.

Practicing what I preach with a fun 404 error page on my personal website.

Searching For Fun

While Google may be best known for their search results, the fun that they often have in delivering those results is an important part of the Google experience.

First, you have the whimsical Google “doodles” that appear in place of the company logo on specific days. These doodles range from simple graphics to fully interactive experiences, such as a playable Pac Man game, or the tribute to guitar legend Les Paul. There are also a host of hidden gems that can be found on Google by searching for specific phrases or terms. Search for the word “askew” in a browser that supports the feature (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and the screen will literally skew itself for you. Using Google Maps, you can search for walking directions from “The Shire” to “Mordor” to get a funny little warning that “one simply does not walk into Mordor.” There are dozens of hidden gemslike this baked right into Google.

The reason Google is so effective in the fun they add is because they make that fun unobtrusive to the rest of the experience. Google puts the fun out there for you if you want it, but access to the service itself is never compromised. This is a critical key to successfully adding fun to a project —make sure it does not interfere with the normal features or purpose of the site itself.

An Over-The-Top Approach To Using Fun

One of the challenges with adding fun to websites is knowing when to stop. The right amount of fun can create a memorable experience, but too much can have the opposite effect, driving users away due to an over-the-top approach. Still, there are times when “too much” is the right amount, and when an over-the-top approach really works for both the brand and the website.

CaptainDash.com uses fun illustrations and interactions throughout their website, including a comic book-like layout for their “What We Solve” section. The experience is enjoyable and unique, and the website screams personality. But even after exploring their website for a few minutes, I found it hard to explain exactly what the company does with any kind of certainty. This is one of the potential pitfalls of going all out with a fun experience — your website still needs to quickly answer the fundamental user question of “what does this company do?”.

“Captain Dash” features a fun experience, but the purpose of the company is tough to uncover with all that personality.

Meomi.com is another site that goes all out in adding fun to their website experience. The website’s entire design is filled with fun characters that move and respond as you scroll over them. The overall experience is one filled with discovery and delight as you explore. I am especially fond of the website’s footer and what lurks behind those trees (go and see for yourself). I also love the fact that as busy as the site is, I quickly knew what it was about due to the tagline placed towards the top of the page — “A little design studio dedicated to play, delight, and goodliness.” Mission accomplished!

The experience on Meomi.com is filled with delightful surprises for you to uncover as you explore the interface.

Another great example of a website that is from top-to-bottom fun (while still making it easy to discover what the website is all about) is Two Giraffes. On the website’s home page, a sign hangs upon a wall that reads: “We design fresh interfaces backed by serious code”, clearly stating the company’s offerings while staying true to the fun environment they have created for the entire website.

“Two Giraffes” does a great job of clearly stating what the company does while staying true to the fun environment that spans the entire website.

Using an over-the-top approach on a website can have it’s risks, but if done correctly, it can also have its rewards — creating an experience that is enjoyable and memorable from start to finish.

Making Your Message Memorable

The design of a great website will support that website’s overall message or purpose. Therefore, we can strive to use a fun approach to create not only a memorable experience, but a memorable message.

The website for the Converge conference boasts that it will “peel back the layers and examine the intersection between design, development and marketing.” The website’s design is immediately striking with its use of a cyborg Tyrannosaurus Rex, but the fun really begins when you scroll down the page; the dinosaur remains, but building on the website’s “peel back” theme, you begin to get to the meat of the content — literally!

Scroll down the page for the Converge conference’s website to get to the meat of the content — literally!

Seamco’s website states that they build “efficient bottling and packaging lines for liquid products.” The website reinforces this message by integrating a wonderful animation of bottling line efficiency. From the top of the website’s design (where the bottling begins) all the way to the bottom (where a delivery truck makes frequent trips to deliver cases of the product being added to it), the entire website is both fun and memorable in service of the website’s main message.

Seamco’s website reinforces their main message through a fun animation that spans the entire design.

Storytelling And Fun

Another way to get a website’s message across is through storytelling — and a fun approach can help ensure that the story you tell is a memorable one.

The website for the Combine conference uses the location of “America’s heartland” in Indiana to tell a fun story that transpires as you start to scroll from the top of the website… a farm machine works in a field as a giant ear of corn is being pumped full of radioactivity, into the middle of the page — where the radioactive corn begins a rampage of destruction, to the… well, I don’t want to ruin the fun. Visit the website and see the story for yourself!

The website for the Combine conference uses storytelling to tell the tale of a rampaging, radioactive ear of corn.

Another great website that uses storytelling is one that details the Bright Future of Car Sharing. Presented with vertical navigation, you can use your keyboards’ arrow keys to “drive” through the website’s scenery and learn more about car sharing. Along the way, there are dozens of elements that you can scroll over or click on to learn more about, accessing extra content, while the website’s message is told in an engaging and interactive way.

“The Bright Future of Car Sharing” as told through a fun, interactive website experience.

Some Websites Cannot Be Fun… Or Can They?

When I talk to fellow Web designers about the benefits of adding fun to the websites they are creating, the argument I most often get against this practice is that the projects they are working on have no place for fun.

Yes, it’s true that there are projects where adding “fun” is a tough sell, but sometimes even websites that don’t instantly lend themselves to a fun approach can be made more effective by using the same principals covered in this articles’ previous examples.

SlaveryFootprint.org is a website that “allows consumers to visualize how their consumption habits are linked to modern day slavery”. It definitely doesn’t sound like a place where “fun” would work, but if you visit the website and select the red “what?” arrow, the experience begins. Scroll down the page and illustrations of colorful, cartoonish hands add pieces of content to the page one block at a time as the website’s message is told. That message ends with a prompt to “take the survey”, and the same methods used for that initial message — cartoonish illustrations, a sense of anticipation, and fun interactivity — turn what would’ve been a simple Web form into a memorable and powerful experience.

“Slavery Footprint” uses illustrations and fun interactions to make a point about a very serious topic.

Another good example of a serious topic presented online is the Dangers of Fracking. It uses many of these same techniques and principals, including the “storytelling” approach, that was previously highlighted. The website uses illustrations and storytelling to detail the process and effect of hydraulic fracturing — essentially creating an interactive infographic in the process. The result is an experience that delivers this message in a much more effective way than any simple paragraphs or static graphics could ever do.

By creating an interactive infographic, the “Dangers of Fracking” uses illustration and storytelling to get their message out in a memorable way.

There are certainly websites whose sensitive subject matter will make it difficult to add fun into the mix. But as these next two examples show, you can use many of the same solutions that other “fun” websites use to create a memorable experience without jeopardizing the seriousness or importance of your message.

Designing For Emotion

In his excellent book Designing for Emotion, Aarron Walter illustrates the benefits (and potential pitfalls) of emotional design. The book covers designing for a range of emotions; including trust, hope, surprise, delight — even love. And many of the examples offered use a bit of fun to elicit these emotions.

Many of the examples in Aarron Walter’s “Designing for Emotion” use a bit of fun to elicit the appropriate emotional response.

A selection from early on in the book provides an excellent call to action for using emotional design in the Web experiences we create:

“We’ve been designing usable interfaces, which is like a chef cooking edible food. Certainly we all want to eat edible foods with nutritional value, but we also crave flavor. Why do we settle for usable when we can make interfaces both usable and pleasurable?”

Designing The Memorable

A Web experience that is simply “usable” is no more memorable than a meal that is merely edible. Just like a master chef strives to create a menu that is truly exceptional, so should we, as Web professionals — endeavor to design and develop experiences and interfaces that are unforgettable. Hopefully this article has shown that one of the ways this can be achieved is by adding a bit of fun to the projects we are designing.

Whether you are firing up Photoshop to work on that new design, or building website templates with HTML and CSS, I encourage you to consider the examples and lessons shown in this article. You want to create amazing and memorable experiences? Try following a simple piece of advice:

Have some fun.