Family is the principle and primary exposure of every child, from there they kick start which ever development they are going to evolve with in life. Family is the principle mechanism for breeding a healthy and sustainable society, they have greater role to play which transcend on how many people behave when they go out of the wider society. Families can be rightly called a “mini societies” with continuous arrangements and specific tasks assigned to various individuals for smooth running of the day-to-day affairs of the family, while they undergo this nurture and growth, there is need to prepare them for communication in larger environment which determines the future of the society in sustaining good cultures and promotion of healthy society.
Parents are the foremost leaders their children see, at early stage they tend to mimic and replicate what they do regularly or what they say, from there they become an ideal role models for their children. The space began to transcend when they move out to learn, when they encounter other children and exchange believes and character, what is going to sustain them is the foundation in the family, the principle and cultures they have been imbibed with for years, but when the foundation is shaky they are mostly likely to be influenced with their close friends, they will be socially and morally leaning to the ways friends they keep around do things, it now creates a labyrinth and menace for the society.
Parents need to actively imposed themselves, they need to be involved in the daily growth and leaning process of their kids, everything should be done in between, to make sure work does not take precedence over the kids, if it does the kids will take everything they see, without proper guidance. Sex education is very important in this context, very early they need to know about the growth in their body and the need to understand how the body reacts. Shaping their minds to be political and economic aware of what is happening in the society, from there they will breed consciousness towards building healthy and sustainable society.
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In Africa, for most average and less families such learning and exposure usually come later in life, they don’t get to have such information on how to evolve with what they tend to use to make ends meet. While the main focus is on putting food on the table and trying to alleviate poverty with unending chase for wealth with no fruition, their attentions are diverted from this pivotal topic, kids in most popular occasions become the victims of the circumstances, falling prey, for female kids predominantly they encounter sexual harassment, sexual violence, rape, early marriages and sex slaves. These become the tale of such kids, for male kids, they are used as henchmen to do all kinds of atrocities, which metamorphosed to and graduated to terrorism.
Stability in family is a major indicator in breeding healthy and sustainable society, it foster growth and help learning processes for the children, this stable ambience help to be in the best state of the mind. While the opposite can be very damaging for the kids, when there is breakdown in the family, when the divorce process becomes toxic for both partners, children become the sufferers, and very often it leads to moral decay. Then comes with single parenthood, which comes with totally different experience. All these affect their wider interaction in the society, and can pose negative intake. Family is the first political and social circle that creates culture and values, the wider society rely on them for sustainability.
