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You mock married people for not having children, you forget also that you can lose your children all at once

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Kofi Tutu

You mock married people for not having children, you forget also that you can lose your children all at once

You mock single people for not getting married, you forget also that you can lose your spouse and be thrown into the misery of loss and bereavement.

You mock women who don’t have male children, you forget suddenly that you can lose your own male children.

You mock people for dying early forgetting that we’d all die, the only difference is that we don’t know when.

You mock people for their health struggles forgetting that the only difference between you being a social media beggar is that same sickness that can hit you anytime.

You mock people who decide to space their children with talks of menopause and time, you forget that menopause hits everyone too and

You mock people who don’t have money, you forget suddenly that you can make that one financial decision and lose all you have.

My point?

Stop mocking people who don’t seem to have what you have.

Stop shaming people with what they don’t seem to have control over.

You who has it all, doesn’t have it all by your own power or might. If God decides to take away his mercies and grace from us, which one of us can actually stand?

My friend told me of a woman whom she had an argument online with and this woman mocked her of how single she still is at 39. She narrated this with tears in her eyes.

Reminds me of this woman who kept bugging me about children, bragging about how she’s in her late thirties and her children are already adults, how she’s going to relax and enjoy the fruits of her labour even before she gets to fifty.

Well, sadly, she lost two of these adult children. Losing her children made her realize that you don’t brag about such things you have and use them to spite others because you have absolute no power of yours to make this happen.

And when we get to heaven, nobody is going to take a crown for getting married earlier, having adults children before your mates or building your mansions before others.

After her loss, she came to ask for my forgiveness and said she had offended me by constantly bugging me about children. I told her I wasn’t a witch o, me I didn’t eat her children and I was sorry tragedy had to teach her this way. I forgave her but I hope she had learnt her lesson.

Stop using what people have no control over to spite them?! Remember, just like that woman, tragedies can humble you.

Omobolanle Adeyemo

Marital

10 scenes your child/children should never witness

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 by Kofi Tutu

You and your spouse sleeping on different beds and in different rooms in the same house. It scares them
You and your spouse insulting each other and using curse words. They start to respect you less
You beating up your spouse. Your son is exposed to the evil side of masculinity, your daughter grows up wary of men
You and your spouse fighting. Your children will begin to feel less safe at home
You and your spouse attacking your child, not believing in your child, talking down at your child. He/she will psychologically run away from home
You and your spouse competing against each other. They grow up thinking family is not unity
You having an affair.
Unfaithfulness hurts children the most, they just don’t get to say it because they don’t have a voice
You disrespecting your husband. Your son will learn to be defensive and your daughter will learn to be spiteful
You abdicating your responsibility as a parent or spending less time at home. Your child will feel unloved
You and your spouse giving each other silent treatment, banging doors, being rude to each other, walking away when the other shows up in the room. It breaks the heart of your young one

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It’s illegal to give your children to someone to care for them – Gender Ministry

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Kofi Tutu

The Gender Ministry says it is wrong for mothers to give their children to others to take care of them.

According to the ministry, giving once child for upkeep by another family is illegal per Ghana’s laws.

It is common practice in Ghana for poor families to offer their children to others to take care of them while the children in turn provide domestic assistance to the caretaker family. There is often no documentation covering the arrangement. Despite common knowledge that most children offered under such arrangement suffer abuses, the practice has largely remained in place in many parts of the country.

Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Tuesday, Deputy Director and Head, Central Adoption Authority of the ministry Stephen Dombo said it is also wrong for people to nurse pregnant women just so they could adopt the babies.

“It’s illegal to take your child and hand him/her to another person to take care of him/her. You bring the child to the social welfare.

“There are people who’ll encourage some young women to carry their babies and adopt after they deliver and that’s illegal. I feel that people need to be educated. If they’re educated, they’ll not do the things they’re doing. Example, if you pick an abandoned child, you don’t keep the child, you report to the police,” he said.

The development comes on the back of the baby harvesting syndicate which was busted last week.

Investigations by the Medical and Dental Council and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) led to the arrest of some doctors, nurses and social workers in the illegal act of baby harvesting’ and ‘human trafficking’.

A joint statement revealed that the investigations were carried into the illegal activities between the periods of June to November, 2020.

As a result of these investigations, two medical doctors, two social workers, four nurses, two mothers and one traditional birth attendant have been arrested so far and are on bail pending further investigations.

According to the statement, Dr. Hope Mensah Quashie was arrested On Thursday, December 31, 2020. Dr. Mensah Quashie who works with the 37 Military Hospital was arrested at his private health facility named Susan Clinic located at Lartebiokorshie, a suburb of Accra. He allegedly sold the first baby boy to the team for an amount of Thirty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC30,000.00) in October, 2020.

He was arrested with three nurses who worked at his facility namely Sylvia Awuseh, John Adorey Effie and Angela Ametepe. They have been identified as his accomplices together with one Dede Gifty Anikpi, a traditional birth attendant at Bethlehem Maternity Home at Santoe a suburb of Kpone Katamanso, who referred the mother of the first baby to Susan Clinic.

Source: Starrfm.com.gh