Money No Happy-Guarantee.

"If money were the only criterion by which a child's welfare can be gauged, then a baby bought for as much as RM 40,000 on the black market would seem set for life. For money-rich but child-poor couples, it is a small price to pay to introduce a small life into their home. The cot is gilded, the blanket is monogrammed, the college fund filled to the brim. All that's wanting is a bun in the oven. And where there is a baby-for-sale racket, money can indeed buy happiness. And after all, why not?" (NST, March 3, 2013)

    The statement above says that money can make and give happiness to the infant if money were the only terms for the child's welfare. So, I am totally disagreeing with the opinion even though there are people who are trying to agree with it. It is because it could give many bad consequences to the baby itself, either physical or mental, if we shower them only with money. Besides, it is also a baby trafficking. According to UN.GIFT (2009), "Trafficking can result in the death or permanent injury of the trafficked baby". So, how could this statement is supporting this illegal activity? Maybe from the money, you could buy a small piece of happiness, but is it worth to buy little happiness, yet it comes from the source like buying your own "species" and make it to be your own? Human have its own right, even they are just an infant. No human can be bought just like that. Human have its own pride; they not like a pet that can be bought when they was little.

  Also, this issue could give bad influence to the communities around us. It could corrupt the communities, like has been stated by UNICEF (2009) “Child trafficking has also been shown to have a major effect on communities. If multiple children in a community are trafficked, it can result in the entire community being corrupted, and thus devastated, by trafficking.”

  So, by right and might, I am still with my own stand that I would never agree with the statement as this situation against the right of humanity. No one like to be sold as a a thing with no feels and heart.

Ciao.