Let’s love our children not abuse them

CHILDREN are very precious little beings who should be cherished, nurtured and protected even whilst they are still in their mother’s womb. But over the past two years or so, I have noticed a spiralling increase in incidents of child abuse globally.

Administering a couple doses of discipline to your children as they progress through their childhood is extremely important, particularly in the current environment where they can be easily influenced through technology and other elements in their external environment.

Abuse of any kind is not be practised neither tolerated particularly towards children.

Child abuse results from different points including physical, emotional or sexual.

Through documented research coupled with research conducted by the International Women’s Resource Network (IWRN), environments within which there is a presence of abuse are clouded by elements of alcoholism/ substance abuse, anger, frustration and a number of other social ills likely to affect human comfort.

However, abusing children within those very environments, is totally unacceptable as the innocence and purity of children must never be taken advantage of.

Based on the various streams of work facilitated by the IWRN, the organisation is fully cognizant of the fact that parents, in particular single and unemployed mothers usually suffer tremendously due to their inability to access basic amenities which unfortunately does not allow for adequate family comfort.

Such discomfort we are told, often leads to increased mental frustration which are sometimes transferred on to young children in that environment either knowingly or unknowingly.

Constant levels of abuse towards children, contribute to the development of a troubled pathway to adulthood as the pain endured during the periods of abuse resonate in their heads for a lifetime in the absence of a sustained programme of counselling and healing which can sometimes be costly. All parents love their children dearly and would like them to have the best lives; however, during the nurturing phases, different things happen which create some dissonance in what is right.

Mistakes are made by everyone and whilst we understand that the birth of children may not always be a planned event, once they arrive in the world, they must be cared for and protected and not be abused.

Negative complaints relating to youths continuously emanate from many quarters forgetting that some of those negative behaviours are the outcomes of the many years of abuse and neglect which some were made to endure for a larger part of their life, and on becoming adults, they are yet to experience reconciliation.

Instead of blaming the youths, adults need to rethink and remember that they are role models for children and in so doing, our society would be reconfigured positively.

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Sandrine Rattan is a communications/branding consultant/author and president of the International Women’s Resource Network (IWRN) Contact: thecorporatesuitett@gmail.

com or intlwomensresourcenetwork@ gmail.com or contact 283-0318.