Fact checks revealed that moral decadence is on a high increase in countries like Nigeria with the low economic turn out. Contemporary social issues such as terrorism, banditry, human and drug trafficking, cybercrime to, thuggery, suicides, homicides, etc becomes order of the day.
Sadly enough huge fiscal budget melts away in pursuance to curb such arising menace with little or no result to show for it. As such they turn to easy lucre lanes and an avenue for looting the state and national treasury for our leaders. This undoubtedly plunges our economic crisis resulting to accumulation of more foreign debts. It will be an illusion to blame bad governance and other leadership relative factors (bribery, unemployment, etc) alone for the birth of this crime into the society without pointing fingers at other contributive factors such as poor parenting and poverty.
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Have you ever questioned the identity and background of those who are used for incessant suicide bombings? Or ever investigate those who dedicate themselves for other sort of exploitations? Heartbreakingly, they are humans too, humans with no or wrong orientations. They are humans so porous and vulnerable to crime because they are short of sane and fundamental orientations ab incunabulim (from the cradle), that which promotes equalitarianism and civilization. The questions of whether they had families or parents and if they do receive any parental orientations becomes inevitable.
Hence critically questioning the role of parenting in our time. This piece tries to expose the effects of the negligence of parenting or rather mal-parenting in our society today. Below are the categories of people without parents— those who grew to become National challenges and nuisances.
The C class or the Circumstanced: Here we have who due to natural happenings are without parents, those in different motherless babies’ homes and orphanages. They are either dumped by careless single mothers or lost theirs to natural disasters.
The A class or the Abandoned: This category lamentably, houses 67% percentage of our Nigerian population today. Their parents are around yet are without parents. They cut across; those of perverted or ignorant parents, those with parents of low financial income, those of too engaged parents, and finally those of too pious parents. They are most times abandoned in care of maids/ nannies, left to fend for themselves in early age, or dumped in different religious centers to be nurtured by spiritual teachers.
The outcome is usually unfavorable as the number of demons created in the homes by maids/ nannies, rogues baked in the streets, and religious fanatics and fighters groomed by religious teachers increase daily. Comparatively, religously groomed monsters tops the chart of national nuisances.
The overlaps between these groups include being ignorant; of their background, of what is pertinent to his environment, and without the love for his society. They grew up with such a gloomy mindset about survival and life, some already bombarded with religious fantasies. As such they become brainwashed, lured, or tricked into doing evil. And are accessible tools for instigating political, ethnic, and religious crisis. All because they lack civil orientations and sound education that which seeks for innovation, inventions, and so on.
Proper education funding to those in orphanages and motherless babies homes as well as for the poor, use of contraceptives by unmarried people for premarital sex, sensitization of the parents, as well as our youths on family planning and childbearing, and abolishing some religious schools can go a long way mitigate the bad fruits of inefficient or zero parenting in our society.
By Indigenous Ekwensu’s Advocate
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK