“If you cannot afford to nurture your baby because you are single mother or you have disability baby, please don’t abandon and just put here your baby.” In 2009, Lee, Sung-lock who is minister of one church in ‘Gwanak-Gu’ in Seoul made the baby box with the sentence. The minister made tool in the baby box to know when the baby is put in the box by their parents. When he found the abandoned baby who almost dies because of hypothermia in front of his church, he decided to make baby box. However, whatever his intention, he should remove the baby box because it encourage deviation, Korea already have programs for abandoned baby, the church is not an authorized facilities and the babies cannot know about their birth information.
First of all, he aggravates evils. Until now, 26 babies were abandoned in the box. If he didn’t make the box, the babies might not be abandoned their parents. He must not give parents chance to abandon baby. The baby box can less the parents’ guilty. They can abandon their baby without big agony. Also, the baby box can make light of baby’s life. This situation make adolescents have less responsibility of babies and it can lead adolescents to disorderly life.
In addition, the program for parents who cannot afford their baby is already made. If the parents cannot nurture baby, they can ask help ‘Ministry of Health and Welfare.’ Government is running system ‘129 call center’ and the parents can tell the experts about their problems. Parents don’t need to use baby box. Therefore, baby box cannot be replaced existing system with baby box.
Thus, the babies who were put in the baby box never can know their birth information. When the babies grow up and want to find their real parent, they don’t have any ways to find their parents. If the parents use the government program, the baby can have their information about who I am. The baby box disturbs to meet their physical parents.
Finally, this is the biggest problem that the church is non licet. Government cannot check their situation freely. It can bring another problem. People cannot notice what is happening in there. Even though the minister. Lee don’t have any bad intention, someone may make baby box for his or her bad purposes pretending to be kind and honest.
This is the slippery slope, minister. Lee have to remove the baby box soon and the government have to expand the facilities for single mom and abandoned babies. Babies are already perfect human. Parents don’t have right to abandon or throw away them. Even though they cannot raise their baby, they have to find the way to solve their problem. At least, they have to leave their baby in institution with trust not the baby box in front of the illegal place.