Date Posted: 1/3/2013 6:24:33 AM
Posted By: fancy03 Membership Level: Gold Total Points: 1287
At first it was the girl child that was at stake.The few women who had managed to get educated started vigorous campaigns to empower the girl child women.They went with the adage that you empower a man you empower an individual and you empower a woman you empower a family and consequently, the whole society. Organisation such as maendeleo ya wanawake were set up for this cause.This has yielded good results.Women are a more empowered lot.They can take any job and responsibility since they are educated.Even jobs that were thought to be a preserve of their male counterparts have women taking them.It will not be hard to find a woman being a pilot or an engineer.However the empowering of women has led to men being left feeling powerless since they are traditionally used to being the big guns around.It also means the boys were ignored since they were viewed as less vulnerable compared to the girls.A parent with two teenagers of both sexes will be more protective over the girl and completely leave the boy to do whatever he likes.This causes the boys to engage in activities such as drug abuse.Consumption of illicit brews by young men is common in some areas in central province.There was a recent protest by some women in coast province over the fact that their men are helpless due to consumption of illegal brews.This has been caused by constant neglect over the years causing the young men to feel disempowered compared to the women.In Nyeri county,some mixed schools have been converted to girls boarding schools leaving the boy child out.Disintegration of the family unit has also been a contributing factor.Many men are absconding their parental roles leaving boy children without role models on how to behave as men.The young men are left to find their own paths.At the same time,the educated and empowered women are putting pressure on their men due to higher expectations.This causes them to be stressed and resort to drugs and alcohol to deal with their stress.No wonder some men are being beaten by their women.It is high time we reversed this trend otherwise the Kenyan boy child and consequently the men will be an endangered species,though not literally.More attention needs to be paid to the boy child,counselling sessions should be carried out for them.Men should a bit more responsible in their duties as role models for the boys.The family unit is the basic unit of any society and also the country.Its condition will determine the condition of the people it brings up and also the state of our leaders.A man is key to any family.He has a role that cannot be taken by a woman because God designed it that way.It is therefor imperative that we take good care of our boys.
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