A study on the factors that contribute to the baby dumping problem in Malaysia: A case study in Kebahagiaan Wanita Dan Remaja (KEWAJA) / Norlina Mohd Salleh and Siti Aisyah Azhar

Baby dumping is one of the problems that concerned by all the members in this country nowadays. This is resulted from the number of statistics that show an increasing number of cases reported by the public each year. Apart from that, this social illness received much attention from all the members in the society as it had become the major topic in the Electronic and Mass media. This immoral activity forces the Police to investigate this action as a criminal case as it gives many bad effects to the image of the country as well the society itself. For this reason, the involvement of government, non-government organization as well as the public is totally crucial in order to solve this problem. Descriptive statistic was used in order to analyze the variable in this study. Analyze is based on primary data that is survey questionnaire. The result from this analysis shows that among the four factors, only sexual knowledge is not significantly correlated with the baby dumping problem. This research is carried out to study on the factors that contribute to the baby dumping problem in Malaysia. The respondent of this study is the trainees of one of the non-governmental organization (NGO) in Malaysia, which is Kebahagiaan Wanita dan Remaja (KEWAJA) located at Gombak, Selangor.