Crazy World:Mum sells kid for Dh4 only

This is a case of extreme hopeless poverty ...

When results show that one's decisions are of not right frame of mind & shocking and surprising to common humanity norms.

It's seems crazy to us, but it is not easy for any woman to give up her offspring. She obviously felt that the child could get a better life with the new couple.

this world is really crazy...

A couple like this is in the dire need of society's support.

Expecting 'anything' from them , at this stage is really like asking for too much , beyound their capacity.

That way, [ birth control ]..

Aren't we stopping someone from taking birth who may have the actual solution to uproot this kind of social stigmas !!

Is birth control the answer - not always .

What social stigma?

She was ridiculously poor and she had too many children to take care of. She sold her baby, not only for money, but to give him a better life.

If she had had access to birth control she could have avoided this pregnancy (and perhaps a couple of others) and not been so poor.

How is not having children you can't afford to feed not a solution?

All the education in the world won't do a thing if they don't have access to contraception. And there's no mention of a man in this story.

It's not birth control. "Brains" is the solution. People need to grow brains. I understand ignorance plays a role. But one grows a brain after the first or the second "slip". Just grow some brains.

Education and contraception. Because without one the other becomes useless.
Birth control is a solution for people who have no need or desire to have kids and will either kill or get rid of them. Luckily this woman sold them off to a seemingly decent couple, how many instead sell them off to brothels or dispose of them in far worse ways.

Birth control is selfish & narrow mindedness.

We don't have the right to stop someone coming into this world.

Give chance to one & all and make them part of the solution to world's problems rather than brand them as a problem in themselves.

Yes we do have the right to decide when and how we have children!! What's narrow minded and selfish is having children you can't afford to feed!

My parents planned me and my brother. They did not have us accidentally, or any more than the two of us, because they they wouldn't have been able to afford us.

I planned my son, I am planning when I will have my next child.

I'm not just going and getting pregnant willy nilly.

"I didn't really have any control over when I got pregnant."

"I'm not just going and getting pregnant willy nilly."

What now, MM?

I did not want to know your status, MM. But I insist that even without contraception a woman has control over her pregnancy. Just don't let the guy come in. What now?
... it requires some brain, though ..

Agree with the comments about birth control...Also common sense would tell you, you can't feed yourself and the kids you already have so why have more??..Birth control would be the wise choice here..Very sad to have to be in that position in the first place.

Our politicians got savings in foreign banks. and their children are studying abroad. They have z+ securities their family members are going free cost for foreign trip. Billions are collecting taxes. But no ministers or government organiations got time to reach the poor uneducated people. they will go for asking the votes. By throwing money to the poor they are buying votes. once they get in power they will forget these poor people. No one can do anything unless and until corrupted polticians are ruling the world. There are many childless couples in India. If we want to adopt there is a lengthy procedure. that is why parents are selling their child due to high cost of living.

education and poverty still prevails in India...Ummm

atleast the other one sold off her baby .. so that her baby has better life

So, would you say that this lady sold her child to give her a better life also ?

A woman is accused of selling her baby for a pickup and methamphetamine. She traded her infant for a 1999 Dodge Dakota pickup and some meth.

The couple accused of taking the child, were arrested Thursday on charges of human trafficking. Both have pleaded not guilty.

The baby, whom police found with the couple and their three biological kids, is now 6 months old and has been placed in the care of child-welfare workers.

The trade was made soon after the baby was born. Officers tracked down the pickup and the current owner told police he bought the truck for $800.

If convicted, the pair who "bought" teh baby could face up to 20 years in prison.

So, my question - should they be prosecuted - since they gave the child a loving home that the mother could not ..

''what i meant is to at least give them sme kind of knowledge n info''

But the 'unique person' who is to give knowledge & info to the masses is not allowed to come into this world by the birth control practices ...

This [ contraceptives ] is actually back firing us [ humanity ....]

we are deprived of that 'unique person' who has to show us [ world community ]the way ...

As by some or one of you, it's alright to bring children into the world but not provide them with the minimum that a human being deserves? And by minimum i mean food on the table,a safe roof, space to grow in, privacy of a room within the walls of which one grows as an independent individual,integrity! Need i list more?
If my family won't provide me with these basics that "I" as a "human being" have the prerogative to,I'd rather they not bear me at all. Fair enough.

We need to be very very sensitive & consider the mental state of that mother's mind, it seems ....

she does not realize what actually is being done by her, it proves she not greedy , taking very little money proves she is not selling kid for money, she is doing it as a permanent relief to herself / or her kid [ God Knows - I am afraid when I type this - God forgive me ].

Only those who are compassionate & has met very poor or under depression people personally can understand it .

PP, because they are too completely different cases. One is a woman who had a complete mental breakdown and the other is one who couldn't afford to feed her child.

One is a woman who had a complete mental breakdown
just madly in love with every mental breakdown person

Those 62 rupees she will definitely sacrifice over her other family members - husband & other kids' basic needs for just one days meals, a piece of cloth or medicine if not this then what else ?

Some papers are saying that she may have sent the child to beg on the Nepalese border..

correct urslf we are not the childern of Almighty

colt45 well-said!

but read her statement

i m suffering from mental breakdown wld like to kill sumone any volunteers ?

we require defending lessons from you

Children as assets.. That's where the human mind goes wrong. You consider a child an asset and you choose when and for how high a price to sell them.

is this unique to third world countries. i dont think so.

even threads posted by an Indian becomes a east/west thing?

Someone from India posted this incident that happened in India, and when people comment immediately offence is taken.

Why is that? If you don't want people commenting on threads, don't bother to open them.

Logic says, if you cannot afford to have kids you cannot feed, don't have them.... be it in India or America... its got nothing to do with where you are from.

Stop being so defensive!

that is why I say, if you don't like the thread, stay away and don't post if you cannot give a un-biased opinion.

So what in your opinion are the underlying factors in this matter, if its none of the blame points you have discussed?

Victory - No i dont agree that such topics shud not be posted. But we need to ignore useless comments and posters and move on. This is the reality of our country and not a pretty one but it is there for the world to see. Brushing it under that carpet is not going to solve anything.

That said - though the comments on use contraception if u cant afford etc.... holds true for educated people. This incident happened with a lady who lives under extreme poverty. And absolutely NO EDUCATION. Accept it - such women do not even have the freedom to use contraception even if they are told about it. How many such women have we seen in our localities? Dont we tell them the same thing? What reply do you get from them?

Its either the argument that once they grow older they will feed us or its against God or my husband / MIL wnats more kids / boys....all excuses but thats the reality. And when things get too hard to bear they sell their babies - not cuz they cant feed them (there are millions dying of starvation) but cuz the mother feels the child will atleast get a better life as in a warm meal and a bed to sleep on with a roof over their head.

Such forums should be discussed among Elite Qlers with sufficient knowledge of the topic.

No doubt, women are suppressed and exploited in Indian rural and semi urban society. I dont like people to make a mockery of my country in Public.

Such painful topics should NOT be posted on QL, where all young and many visitors who are on QL for just fun and friendship...:(

Does every QL user is open minded and matured enough to analyse and understand such issues? I doubt

Was that the one in the UAE stealth? I recently read that the baby seems to be suffering from brain damage. :(