#DeadBeatKenya: Providing for your child the right thing to do
What you need to know:
- We have seen old men run up and down trying to lay claim to their now rich offspring in vain. You don’t ever want that to be you.
- Finally brethren, if you take care of the children out there, God will take care of those living under your roof. Rejecting those you procreated in the “wild” could bring a curse upon those who carry your name. Trust me.
A new battle ground between the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve has been launched: #DeadBeatKenya.
And from the look of things, there are men who would rather die than take responsibility for the children they sired in the “wild”.
Financial implications and fear of their acts being brought to light have set the freelance breeders on edge. They are now heaping all manner of unutterables on mothers.
There are reasons that should persuade any man to want to provide for all his offspring. For one, it’s the right thing to do. This is not between you and “that woman”, but your own flesh and blood.
BABIES ARE NOT BOUGHT
You may not have planned to sow the seed but at least you were old enough to know that babies are not bought in shops. You were not raped, and so rattling over how some woman conned you is hypocritical.
Those we refuse to acknowledge today may deny us when we are all shrivelled, coinless and battling old-age diseases after they turn out to be the corner-stone rejected by the builders. We have seen old men run up and down trying to lay claim to their now rich offspring in vain. You don’t ever want that to be you.
Finally brethren, if you take care of the children out there, God will take care of those living under your roof. Rejecting those you procreated in the “wild” could bring a curse upon those who carry your name. Trust me.
EMMA KABIRU, Nyeri
