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We often forget the children

Jul 28, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
We sometimes focus more on living and forget the little ones beside us that so much need our direction.
Our children are being left to find their way on their own, and more so fend for themselves in order to survive.
Now this is not so with every child, but for the majority who are neglected every day by both, or either parent, and even society; people fail to realize they are our future.
Mr. Editor, as a nation and people we need to do more for our children who are the backbone to any future development in this country.
Since development is a collaborated effort, we must include the children if we are to ever achieve any real purpose.
In homes, parents are the key to any child’s development: they can either build them, or break them. Hence the onus is theirs to ensure that the child is brought up in a way where he or she can later go on to be a contributing factor to his/her place of birth.
When parents are not given the resources to make the path clear for their children, it brings additional burden on the home, sometimes forcing either one to shirk his/her responsibility, and off in search for life where it seems to be easier leaving the children unattended.
With the current distrust in our country which we have allowed to prolonged unchecked (for so long), the situation has over the years impacted negatively on the families of this nation: removing opportunities from homes through to high levels of unemployment, which will eventually breathe a higher level of illiteracy, leading to an increase in crime.
The government must bear responsibility for its suffering children as well, since the onus is theirs to create opportunities for parents to be better equipped to train the children in a manner that will produce a better society, hence a prosperous nation.
Collis Lloyd

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