A child needs education towards future developments In many Third World countries, there is a decline in the reading standard of children, due to many problems such as the inability to purchase books and the failure of parents themselves to read and teach their children to follow their steps. Most of the time when the performance of a child at school is poor, the fault is placed at the doorsteps of teachers but then as parents, what help do we give our children when they are out of sight of teachers? Educationists had often said that in Africa, the reading ability of children is poor because they are not encouraged to read and learn. Parents that did not get the opportunity to be educated may feel that education is a waste of time, and therefore, the child should engage in trade. But now it is well accepted that since a child out of school is a waste of natural resources, the children's interest in books should be a priority and considered a responsibility for every parent and teacher. The library is said to be the heart of a school. It plays a major role in teaching and encouraging children to read. The numerous books in the library is a source of delight to children, as they take in and take out books regularly. This improves their reading ability.
Many African children are fatherless and motherless
Children are assets to national development in every part of the world. They are considered as future leaders, in this way they need every care, help, and education in their growth and development.
However, it very sad to see children, especially in Third World Countries roaming aimlessly on the streets, as if they were artificially dropped from nowhere to increase the population of their country of origin.
Children these days are traditionally the subject of ridicule, humiliation, and mental torture. Due to poverty, some parents are so cruel to their children to the extent that about sixty-five percent of children in poverty-stricken countries are forced into prostitution, crime and child-labor, thus; violating the rights of children.
In some parts of Asia, children often work in migrant labor camps for miserable wages. Some are forced by parents to work as slaves to pay their debts. Young depressed children who escape the harsh treatment in the labor camps are often sent back by their parents with threats. The question is why are some parents so cruel to their own children?
In an advanced country like the United States of America, each year it is estimated that one million children are abused. The suicide rate for 15-24-year-old has increased over the past twenty years. In Brazil children often playing or sleeping on the streets are "sprayed" to death by bullets from machine guns by what the gang child assassins called "Street Cleansing."
The question is if parents are not ready to take over the responsibility of the affair of their children, why did they bring them into the world to face such dangerous and unhealthy situations? The lower the level of children's care the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused.
It is rather unfortunate that thousands of children who should be in school are on the streets, because of poverty. Let us not neglect the children. We need a change in our society, in our minds, feelings and in our patterns of work, law, education, and politics. We urgently need to see clearly, articulate precisely and above all act bodily on issues pertaining to children.
