Gender activist prods fathers
CARE from fathers would help reduce mass school dropouts among girls, says Gender activist Gloria Kaonga.
Ms Kaonga observed that fathers had an important role to play in promoting girl-child education.
He noted that in most cases, girls were close to their fathers and that proper care and love from their male parents would boost their confidence toZardV edXcation.
“Good care and love from a male parent would motivate the girlchild to work hard at school, hence help in the reduction of school dropouts among girls; so fathers have a big role to play in this,” Ms Kaonga said.
She also urged mothers to avoid negative tendencies that would induce fathers to abandon their social responsibilities towards the education of the girl-child.
She said it was incumbent on women to show the respect, love and humility to their husbands so that they would not neglect their responsibilities.
“Sometimes if wives respect their husbands, probably they would not neglect their responsibilities to care for their children especially the girls, so mothers have a role to play in this as well, by being submissive,” she said.
Ms. Kaonga observed that majority of fathers stopped giving proper parental care to their children, especially the girl-child upon the breakdown of marriages.
She urged fathers to be responsible and encourage their daughters to get an education, so that they could be responsible in the future and contribute to national development.
She advised men to pay more attention to the development of girlchildren by providing them with sound and qualitative education.
“You know, fathers have that authority in them when they speak, so it’s important that they also keep an eye on the movement of their children and cultivate a habit of paying them regular visits in their school so as to ascertain the level of their seriousness and company they are keeping,” Ms Kaonga said.