Not all mothers are good mothers

THE EDITOR: The much touted and more commercialised “Mothers Day” reminds me of the mothers who are not worthy of the name.

Everybody would like us to believe that mothers are the greatest in all circumstances bar none, but I am positive that many children would like to disagree. Many women today give birth to children and then systematically abuse them in one form or fashion. If you ask them why they do it, they will tell you that that was how they were brought up.

I know of a mother who had eight children. She was married quite young and didn’t have the mothers’ manual that comes with having babies. So she beat the hell out of her children any time she felt like it for various reasons. She is quite old now and literally deserted by her children. She is suffering physically and mentally due to her still lingering ability to verbally abuse her children. Now she wants her children to pamper her and fuss over her, but when she cannot have that, she wishes the vilest things upon them.

I known many others who have similar types of mothers and some are lucky that their mothers are dead, but this specific mother with the eight children is still alive and making her children suffer. Sometimes I go to Port-of-Spain for shopping and I see women dragging their small children along and a small baby in their arms. The attitude these women display to these children makes me cringe. For those women who have exemplary mothers, I say congratulations because some mothers have it all together.

EDEN SINGH
San Fernand