When A Child Is Neglected

Do you remember February 1993 in England , when a young boy of 3 was taken from a Liverpool shopping centre by two 10-year-old boys? Jamie Bulger walked away from his mother for only a second, Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 and a half miles, along the way stopping every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his mummy. Finally they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked him, threw stones at him, rubbed paint in his eyes, pushed batteries up his anus and cut his fingers off with scissors. Other mutilations were inflicted but not reported in the press. -Extracted from an email posted at ClickdTalk

I can't believe it. Parents nowadays are taking care their children very lightly. Especially in Malaysia wonder wonderland. And it has been a trend here!. Don't believe it? Click HERE to read more. And HERE too. And HERE.

You want to have kids as quick as possible (Wah! Already two kids? How long you two have been married? Oh, it was just like yesterday, seriously, yesterday). After that you sometimes and somehow, managed to be busy enough and forget that you have kids. Sound cruel? Hey, when was a trend is not cruel? Don't worry, before you ever blink, the trend will be gone.. I hope.

Parenting skills of young parents are seems to be deteriorated (caution, not me who saying it). So, when their child lost on her way to a market,why don't we torcered the parent more? Jail sound good to me (definitely not me). That is what I could recalled when the Minister of Women, Family and Community of Malaysia has suggested one of the proposed laws when the breakdown of Nurin Jazlin's case surface in the local media.

I thought that the parent has suffered enough and the main criminal should be the unknown assailant, suspected to be a psychopath killer? Sadly enough, that person is still live freely till this day. Well, when your Health Minister former Health Minister has a sex scandal video surfacing the internet, what more did you expect?

I would like to ask your opinion on the best way to handle this situation. Jail the parents as they are the one who neglect them? Are the parents is the only problem here? So, in this love, love in the air month, spare some of your love to those kids who have been lost, to their parents that are waiting with hope mounting high and to the ordinary citizens like you and me who plainly care.

View blog reactions