Meaning of responsible Parenthood
Responsible parenthood refers to the state of carrying out parental duties and functions in the family and society effectively and efficiently. It means parents being able to take care of their children and raise them up in such a way that they become good and responsible adult members of the society.
Roles of Responsible Parenthood
1) Providing for the Household (i) Responsible parenthood has the role of knowing the number of children that can be adequately accommodated in the household based on the available accommodation. (ii) Responsible parenthood provides security for every member of the household, it ensures that the children are protected from all harmful influences in the society. (iii) makes provision for old age facilities, e.g. pensions, old people’s home, etc. (iv) provides for regular feeding of members of the household.
2) Caring (i) Caring for young members. (ii) caring for the old people who can no longer provide enough for themselves.
3) Education: responsible parenthood plays the role of giving both formal and informal education to its members.
4) Good Home Training: (i) it inculcates morals to the members of the household. The girl child best type of home training and formal education to enable her build her own home.
(ii) it teaches values like; honesty, trustworthiness, contentment, discipline, courage, etc. to enable its members adapt to the secondary society. (iii) provides good home training and family life education.
5) Conflict Resolution: responsible parenthood knows how to manage social conflicts and other interpersonal crisis like lack of tolerance, lack material resources, etc. such matters can easily be resolved through dialogue, counselling and reprimands.
Importance of responsible Parenthood
1) Responsible Citizenry: it acts as a springboard for the production of responsible citizenry in the society. this could be observed in the following ways; (a) responsible citizenry turns out in their numbers to responsible for the candidates of their choice.
(b) they help to bring to bring about free and fair election in the country. (c) good and responsible parenthood produces citizens that know their rights, privileges and duties.
(d) it produces citizens who love and serve their country selflessly and contribute to national development.
2) Reduction in Crime: crimes and other anti-social behaviours are abhorred in every society. Responsible parenthood therefore, inculcates home and societal values which make its members hold their family name to esteem and above any negative action like examination malpractice, cultism, sexual abuse robbery, trafficking in persons, drug trafficking, etc.
3) Healthy Nation: people who are given adequate and sound education, right type of food, decent shelter, security and unbeatable recreational facilities will spend less medication and be able to contribute to the growth of their country’s economy.
Consequences of Irresponsible Parenthood
1) Shortage of food and other material needs.
2) Congestion or lack of space for the members of the family.
3) Over population of apartment can lead to having many children that may constitute social menace.
4) Non-provisions of formal education for the children.
5) Increase in crime rate.
6) Divorce and lack of trust.
7) Premature deaths.
8) Disease and ignorance.
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If I am you and I am a parent I will do my best to control him or her and make sure I teach that child the good things of life and not the bad ones. Once this is done then the Crime rate will be depleted.
He manages his child of responsible parenting, manages how he can move forward through the highest organization, how he can overcome obstacles, how he can live his life.