IMG_3416I have heard a piece of news about a cruel incident that a man neglected his child to death. The sad fact is that there are many children who are killed by their parent every year. So, I believe that we should adopt the way of saving children “the baby hatch.” It has been placed in Kumamoto Prefecture since 2007, but even now, there is only one system in Japan. We should push ahead with this system to prevent child abuse, reduce the number of abortion, and raise an issue to the society.
First of all, the baby hatch is effective to prevent child abuse. According to a survey, there are about 67,000 children abused by their parent, and the number of the cases is increasing year by year. Besides, some of the abused children were born by unwanted pregnancy. It means that such parents are not interested in child rearing because they had their babies by unwanted pregnancy. However, if there is a baby hatch, they can leave babies without hurting them, and we can prevent child abuse.
In addition, the baby hatch can reduce abortion. Surprisingly, according to statistics, there are 200,000 women who have an abortion in a year. As you know, abortion kills new lives growing up in mother’s womb. Nothing is harder than giving up new lives. From another perspective, it has some bad influences not only on babies, but also mothers. It is difficult for mothers to get pregnant after the abortion, and it costs too much for the operation. That is to say, abortion affects mothers ethically and economically, so they had better give birth to babies. If the baby hatch is set up, women who had unwanted pregnancy do not have to give up babies because they have a choice to leave babies.
Last but not least, setting up the baby hatches can raise an issue to the society. If more baby hatches will be set up in Japan, the media will come to pick up on this issue, and then people can know about the baby hatch, and they have a chance to think about the conception and child rearing. It leads to solve the problem of child abuse fundamentally.
All in all, as I have shown, adopting the baby hatch can save the children from abuse, decrease the number of abortion, and call attention to the society about this issue. The baby hatch can protect the babies, and it enable them to live with a new family. At this time, I have introduced about the baby hatch which is one of the ways to save children, but I strongly feel that each of us should think what we can do to decrease the number of suffering children.