At times we clearly are on the fence when it comes to growth. Your immediate environment and its surrounding areas are not the same as then, thanks to development. The challenge we all are faced with now is that of an influx of foreign nationals into our central business districts. The numbers are alarming. Some may lament opportunities they lose of employment due to that fact, high crime stats, and so forth, but I’d like to touch on rather a different subject we choose to turn a blind eye on.
Language and lifestyle dynamics
Due to them being on every corner,
our young bloods tend to be too close to them and results are teenage
pregnancy, drug abuse and high early school drop-out rates. In some countries, people do that
in order to qualify citizenship status and social grant claims, the thorny issue often put in hind is
the question of language the child will speak at home.
If a child is born out of wedlock,
which language should be the first to the child? Also, even if the foreign
father marries the mother, it still remains puzzling if we don't have the father's language among the official languages in the respective territory. Then, if the mother lets that pass and let
the child speak the foreign language, how will the child cope with having to switch
from speaking that language to that of the mother’s when out at school and when
playing with friends?
The other challenge which I struggle
with is that of squatting. Just imagine this: a girl meets a foreign guy who
works at the local mall building construction site. As we all know, construction on
such sites takes long to reach completion. They elect to squat in the girl’s
one-roomed shack and in no time sire a child. Within a short space of time they
welcome another one. After completion there is no other job to do and the man
stays on and together at a later stage they get blessed again with another
child before trotting to another place to work on another construction project
and leaving them behind forever.
Ask yourself how old the first born
will be when they try for the third child, bearing in mind that all the sensual
activities happening in that very same shack in presence of the child. What that
child witness at that delicate stage of development will never escape their mind.
What does the future holds for that particular child? What such a situation
brings about is the next generation of rapists, wanton youths and mentally
scarred hoodlums.
Early childhood development scuppered
Three or four years of age, the
scenes a child grasps in their head will linger for a long time to come. What
as parents should be doing is shield them from bad and negative occurrences to
their upbringing.
It is not that I’m xenophobic or
otherwise, but just bringing to the fore one of the contributors to our
nation’s social ills. What needs be told is that this also is the case with our
own locals who migrate from province to province doing temporary jobs. On daily
basis things happen that in future will impact us in a big way unimaginable today, be
them done by foreign nationals or by our own locals.
In conclusion: 'If it’s from the heart, it’ll touch other hearts'[1]. Denying a child a decent environment to grow from is an injustice. Failing a child with a stable language to grow speaking, is a slow poison to both esteem and self-knowledge of the child. Giving a child a habitable and stable home is any young one’s dream and a birth right. Thus will ensure our nation’s moral fibre stays intact, in balance and defensible at all costs.
And, the next time you consume a sippet and flashing to all those who care to look at your expensive horologe, think of the shortcomings of others and appreciate your background. Think of what you can do to help another sole to better a child’s life so as to can avoid recurrences of such mishaps from being experienced further. Develop your local economy with your people being truly empowered, and your country will be the envy of many out there...dp
[1] by KgeleLeso
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