Mikaela's Moon

"Teenage mother throws out baby from taxicab window
By Tina Santos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:56:00 06/19/2008

MANILA, Philippines – Barely five hours after a newborn baby girl was allegedly thrown out of the window of a condominium unit in Binondo, Manila, Tuesday morning, another newborn baby girl was seriously injured after she was allegedly dropped from a taxi cab by her teenage mother in Paco."
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Responsible parenthood seems to escape a lot of people. During the old days people would sire as many children and abandon them, now! a few of them seems intent on killing their babies as well.

Shrinks have a term on these condition. Brook Shields once admitted on National Television that she entertained thoughts of drowning her new born baby in a bathtub.

I'm not sure if its called "Postpartum depression", but its a real mental disorder that affects new mothers. That's why responsible parenthood does not only start with the mother, the responsibility should also spread to the Father, the relatives and close friends of the mother.

Now, I don't know personally the two mothers involved in this senseless baby throwing incident. But as much as they have blood on their hands, these are shared as well by their husbands/boyfriends or whomever who got them pregnant in the first place and their family members as well.

All of a sudden as our society gets fragmented on all sides in pursuit of individual goals, the family unit is being washed away into a solitary membership. Sometimes even in your own family, its "each man for himself"

And as these trend continues, more and more tragic incidents like this will continue in years to come and the most innocent newborn and even unborn babies will pay for what our society have become.

And yes, there should be a death penalty impose on Mothers who kills their own child.
And castration to irresponsible Fathers. (who oftens impregnate a woman just to brag something to their friends)