Who is responsible for the moral decadence in the society today, most especially the youths, is indeed very difficult to say. A lot of people believe parents are to blame while others apportion blame to teachers. I have every to believe that moral decadence among the youths has its roots in parents.
Parents have failed in their duties to bring up the child the way he should in utter disregard of both Quranic and Biblical injunctions which says that parents should train a child the way he should go, so that when he is old he won't depart from it.
Parents are the child's first teachers. They therefore have a lot to do in the training of the child before he joins the formal school. Contrary, the economic situation in the country today has made most parents to abandon their duties in pursuit of material wealth.
Furthermore, house-helps and maids have now assumed the role of parents as far as domestic chores are concerned. Very early in the morning both parents leave for work, leaving the child to the care of the house-helps. By the time they return in the night, the child would have been in bed. Come next day, the child would still be asleep while parents would have gone out in the morning. When then do parents stay with the child to train, correct and make him happy?
Some parents are known to support the child when he goes wrong. Some parents go to the extent of harassing teachers for flogging the child at school, these encouragess the child to do even worse things. At home, the child does bad things while the parents support him so that he would no take offence. Some do not care to flog or punish the child who has done something wrong so that he won't "die", thereby sparing the rod to spoil the child.
Some parents are known to have perpetrated so many immoral things to the glare of the child... Forgetting that the child sees his parents as a mirror and emulates virtually all they do. When immoral acts such as embezzlement of funds (which of course is a form of stealing), fornication, bribery and others are done in the presence of the child, how then can anyone, especially the parents turn round to punish him as far as he copies these acts?
Though teachers cannot be totally absolved from the blame of the youths' decadent behaviour, parents should not forget that the child spends 6hrs out of every 24hrs that make a day at school and that is about 30hrs out of 168hrs in a week on the average, which is almost 0.2%. The remaining 99.8% hours a week are spent at home.
Sometimes, teachers fear to punish the child when they remember that his parents may organise an offensive charge against them. These days teachers do their best to train the child negative is the result because the child has already imbibed so much immortality from home, which teachers find difficult to change.
Parents encourage immortality among their wards by not querying them of their late night, for instance, and being in possession of expensive material gifts. Most mothers descend so low to make use of these gifts with their daughters which is not peculiar to girls alone. Boys also do this... Riding expensive vehicles their father never owned with an illegal source of income. Some parents fail to look into the company their children keep. Some maladjusted parents go many miles to over-pamper their children... An act which later boomerang both on the parents and the society. All these are sure roads leading to immortality.
The child's mind is blank at birth and if the mind is filled with immorality and the child grows with it, then it will be very difficult to correct afterwards. Indiscipline must be jettisoned by our youths and all hands must be on deck to save the youths. It is dangerous and highly calamitous for youths to destroy themselves before the mantles of leadership are handed over to them in the near future.
Parents and teachers must buckle up and intensify moral re-armament and disciplinary measures as they deem fit to shape and mould our young citizens into better citizens.
"Discipline conducts; practices exalt and prosper a nation".
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