There Is Increase In Boy Child Neglect In Our Society Today.

 

If you observe the societies we are living today, you will find out that the girl child is more favoured than the boy child. When he is unwell the parents think that he is pretending, when food is not enough the boy child is the one who will miss so that his sister can eat, he is the one who is dropped out of school if school fees is not enough. In short you can easily tell that the boy child is highly neglected in today's society.

The society has focused on the girl too much until the boy has been left behind. When we look at even the government, girls in schools are provided with sanitary towels but nothing is given to boys. The entry points to university and secondary schools are also lower than that that of boys. This has led to the boy child feeling neglected and not wanted by the society.

In parliament we are always advocating for gender balance but concentrating too much to female than male. Yes its true that the girl child was very much neglected before but we have done too much on one side and forgotten the boy child still exists and needs to be recognised too.

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This has brought too much negative effect to the boy child. Due to neglect, they have dropped out of school, they have become drug addict, they have also become criminals and others have separated with their children. These children are the ones who are joining terrorists groups like Alshabaab and others. This is why I call upon everyone to join our hands together and bring back to life our boy child.

I have shared this video with you to hear from the horses mouth (a boy) on what the boy child is going through in his daily life.

Click here to Watch the viodeo.