Parents tasked on equal attention for male, female child

PARENTS have been charged to give same attention to their male and female children to check gender- based violence in the society.

Speaking yesterday at a summit, staged by a nongovernmental organisation ( NGO), Boys Quarters Africa, in collaboration with Connected Development, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Education Intervention, Fela Bank- Olemoh, observed: “The rate of gender- based violence in our society today is alarming, and it is because not much attention is placed on raising the

boy- child as we do to the girlchild.

“The society needs to make the upbringing of the next generation of leaders well rounded and complete. Whether you come from a poor or rich background, it doesn’t matter because life has a way of equalising with time. It’s the principles you grow up with that matter.”

He urged students to hold on to five things needed to grow in life, which include, having strong figures to serve as role model, learning to take responsibility, accountability, not comparing their lives with others or succumbing to peer pressure and avoiding get- rich quick schemes.