Ignorance or Naive?

History repeats. And it's proven yet again, how parents failed their duty to protect their children. And somehow, this is incredibly rampant in Asian countries with the lukewarm effort to improve the system or even putting up any effort into it.

Take Malaysia for example. The recent missing child Nurul Nadirah Abdullah, whose charred remains was found at a plantation. It's a typical horror event that somehow always repeat itself in the news. And as always, it shares two points. Point 1: Young children wander about without adult surveillance. 2) Parents said their area is safe.

I wonder how many children need to be lost, hurt, or killed in order for parents in Malaysia to learn about "child safety". Malaysian community have a typical attitude in life. A "tidak apa" behavior which you can see in the way they live as a family within any community, in their performance at work and literally everything itself. Malaysians make a huge fuss and fights when things go wrong... though this usually only last for, say... a few days? Weeks? Months? Years? And then the whole issue will die down and repeat itself once again when things happen, yet again. Malaysian never "prevent", they only "react".

The most Malaysian parents have almost no rules or regulations for their children which I believed, an attitude ingrained in them since long ago, a very cultural thing. Children ran on the streets where vehicles passes by all day. Younger siblings will be placed in the care of the older siblings, sometimes as young as SEVEN-years-old. Parents and community are too comfortable with the idea that "it is all in the hands of Allah or the Lord". Unfortunately, some communities are affected more on this particular topic than any other, mainly because they are very trusting to others - which make them one of the most close-knitted community who look out for one another. However they must realize that the current society that we are living in has since changed much. Crimes has increased drastically. The violence and senselessness of the crimes these days should serve as loud warning bell in any parents mind. Parents who commit heinous crimes against their own children are in the rising and even reported quite often in the news, how can you expect people in the public will not harm someone's else child? So is this "naive" or just plain "ignorance"?

Over and over again, parents have been reminded to look and monitor their children. Over and over again, children are left to their own devices. And when bad things happened, parents and the public cried foul over the crime and want justice. Yet, they are just as guilty. They could have prevent the crime from happening all-together.

If parents are not able to learn on their own devices, it is big time that a proper law to be put in place. A law to ensure that the parents are fit to care for their children, and harsher laws for crime against children. It is laughable that a monster who molest, rape, hurt, abduct are only sentenced to a few years for such crime, only to repeat himself on other children when he's out. Where is the justice in this?