Children are the future of tomorrow since today's children becomes the adult of tomorrow. The wealth of a country lies solely on the quality and kind of children nurtured in a country. Children are also believed to be the fruit of a successful marriage. They are beautiful creatures that needs to be catered,nurtured and groomed properly in preparation for a better tomorrow. They are the reason for man continous existence and even the Holy Bible understands their essence.
"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth."-Psalms 127:3-4 (AMP)
Even with likening children as arrows in the hand of a warrior, children are still subjects to maltreatment and bad parental care. My heart bleeds when i see children hawking around the street for their so called parent, it saddens my heart to see them risk their life on highways selling things in trafficks all in the quest to survive.It hurts to hear news of how some babies are dumped in various garbage heap, if not dumped forcefully aborted.
With Nigeria having one of the highest birthrate in the world(39.1%/1000 people according to crude birth rate) you see lots of families living below 500 Naira($1.4) per day having over five kids. This leaves me with the question; How do you feed and cater for these kids when you can't even take good care of yourself?, Why have so many children?, Is it as a result of ignorance to the use of contraceptives or irresponsibility on the parts of the parents?
These ignorance and irresponsibility has left the future of so many children bleaky. Kids lack proper education doing demeaning jobs; selling things on monstrous and dangerous highways, scavenging waste, some even result to stealing just to cater and fend for themselves when they ought to be catered for. Many kids in the course of these jobs has been abused physically, sexually amd mentally.
With the irresponsibility of the parents, the government themselves are not doing the needful in caring and catering for these children. Like most African countries, Nigeria is blessed with leaders that cares less about the populace, leaders that are more concentrated in filling their own coffers, leaders that lacks the understanding that children are the future of tomorrow.
These irresponsibility on the part of both the parents and government has taken a toll on the Nation's criminal activity. Youths now venture into various fraudulent activites specifically cyber- fraud( yahoo-yahoo as locally called), Armed robbery and kidnapping which has soiled the Nation's reputation.
Nigeria; once referred as the "Giant of Africa" is now vastly considered as the "Miniscule of the World" and things are unlikely to change if child education and development are not improved.
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