Our children lack guidance

THE EDITOR: We need to start some way of dealing with the social problems plaguing this country. Our children are lacking guidance and moral values and as a result they are being led into a life of crime and immorality. They no longer have a parent caring for them. Their mothers now work because the fathers don’t provide, willing or not, the fathers don’t provide or don’t provide sufficiently. The children are left in the care of aging grandparents, neighbours or other unsuitable persons where they are exposed to the unthinkable. In my neighbourhood there’s a woman who charges to keep children and has her boyfriend visiting at all hours. She is married. Do the parents know? Do they care?

My friend complained to me recently that her husband was having an affair and that the woman had her teenage daughter calling the house at all hours for him. What are you telling your children, especially your girl children? That it is ok to pick up any man, it does not matter if he is married? Then in fact you are saying marriage is not a sacred institution. We can do it today and scrap it tomorrow? We need to start protecting our children and not complain when they engage in sex at an early age. We need to prepare them for the future, let them know — you reap what you sow. Let them know you can lead a decent life and that I, the one who loves him/her will show the way.

FEROZE KHAN
Curepe