Fathers Urged To Be Role Models
The Upper Nile State Acting Governor has urged fathers to be good role models, provide the necessary support in the household and must play an important role in the lives of their children. 24 April 2013 The Upper Nile State Acting Governor John Ibo Munto urged fathers to recognize the role they play in the family structure. [Ariik Atekdit] By Ariik Atekdit MALAKAL, 23 April 2013 [Gurtong] - John Ibo Munto said men are abandoning the heavy responsibilities at home to women. “Nowadays it is only women who are the sole winner of bread and upon them are other responsibilities. Women are working hard at home to teach children and find some work that would end them money for feeding,” Ibo said. “I know very well in South Sudanese cultures, women are the ones suffering cooking food and men sit only on chairs watching them working,” he added. He urged men to be serious in taking care of their children. “Men have become very lazy, they are only found at dominos places, playing cards or sitting around tea places from the sun rise to the sun set without doing any productive job that will help their children. This is not good,” he said. “We are men because we have household tasks and should have the capability. We should have homes and take care of our children. We should attend to our children so that they should dream to become responsible like their fathers. But you cannot produce children and leave them in desperate situation,” Ibo added. He said the freedom South Sudanese struggled for was not to refuse work and claim that one is free. “We paid our blood for the freedom of South Sudan until we became independent country. We are independent politically but that does not mean that we should ignore any kind of work and stay unproductive,” he stated. He said most of the children in South Sudan lack parental care and they end up frustrated or lose hope in life. Why should we produce children if we know that we cannot take care of?” he asked. Ibo asked South Sudanese to stop blaming everything on the government even the care for children and wives at home. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
