adminThe population of bitter souls, if a census were to be conducted, would be staggering. This is due to the nature in which humans conduct their business, particularly managing their relationships.
When relationships break down, many a time festering wounds and scars are left quite open, with the pain rarely receding with each passing day. We have noticed that in many cases, where such relationships lead to the birth of a child, the product of the relationship is caught in between, and as they say, it is the grass that suffers when elephants fight.
Elsewhere in this edition we carry a story of faith, hope and triumph over adversity, wherein a daughter has been reunited with their father that they never knew, 28 years later. As B-Metro, we take pride in our role in bringing about the reunion of father and daughter.
We recently carried a story of the woman who was looking for her father, and the odds seemed stacked against her as she did not have her late mother’s picture, let alone her father’s name or picture to aid her search. However, we would like to wish her well in the new relationship that she is now fostering with her father, even though they both lost 28 years due to the breakdown of relations between the father and her late mother.
Our appeal to other parties in relationships is that they should ensure that the souring of their relationships does not adversely affect their children, making them grow up with bitterness that their parents did not love them, or that they neglected or rejected them.
We believe that co-parenting should be given a chance, that ex-lovers should not necessarily be enemies. Also, there are fathers that shirk their responsibility of looking after their offspring, leaving women to fend for the children alone.
Just recently we had Press reports where the mother of triplets from Cowdray Park suburb was seeking help to look after her children after the father deserted her, probably after failing to stand the enormity of the task they faced in raising the children.
We feel once people decide to be parents they should be ready to look after the children since there are many birth control options to delay or decide not to have children until they are ready.
It is important that we do not continue to raise a generation of bitter and confused children that feel either rejected or neglected and become angry at society resulting in deviant behaviour.
For those that made the wrong choices, and rejected their children, it is not too late to repent and look for the children and do what is right. Stable families give rise to stable communities that in turn build stable and peaceful nations, and we all can, in our small way, play a part towards a future we want through the way we raise the next generation.
Siphakeme .Mnindwa
mbulelo smpofu
