Source: Augustine Mawutor Egbenya
The District Officer of Social Welfare and Community Development, Maxwell Agbango, has urged parents and guardians to spend more time with their children to help model them into better citizens.
He said parents must show love and warmth to their children because such gestures make them very happy and stop them from seeking affection from other people which mostly leads to them falling into the wrong hands, resulting in undesired consequences.
This came to light during the fourth secession Community Engagement Meeting ( CEM ) organized by the Assembly Member of Dalive-Torzikpota Electoral Area in collaboration with the Social Welfare and Community Development Department of the South Tongu District. The event was a community-level stakeholder engagement in Yorve, among the seven communities within the electoral area under the ‘Filed Organization Drive’ of the assembly members to foster regular and continuous community engagement.
Mr. Maxwell Agbango sensitized the community members and complained about the rise in child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and domestic violence, and its related issues within the South Tongu District.
The program was designed to end the various forms of abuse children encounter and create the needed understanding of parental responsibility towards their children as child marriage and defilement are social threats to the future of the child and the nation at large.
Hon. Peter Narteh, the Assembly Member for Dalive-Torzikpota Electoral Area added, “We expect parents to be responsible, providing the physical, emotional, and material needs for the children.”
He urged the participants to put what they were taught into practice and keep it.
