How Is It Her Fault?

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She has been tainted by the society that was designed to protect her. Her life ceased to be her own the moment her cousin decided to sleep with her. She felt used and disturbed and she was reluctant to open up to even her parents. She is a girl, her father is not particularly keen on her because all he wanted was a boy. I don't know where society has gone wrong to think the girl child is a liability rather than another child to be excited about.

She was down and out but you could feel it within her bones that she is tired. She kept to herself a lot and the mother didn't seem sensitive enough to ask her what the problem was, especially after a month since the cousin starts living with them. The cousin is much older; 26 and she is just a girl of 16 with no other sibling available. The other siblings are boys and that was why the father facilitated their move to study abroad at a tender age. She was left all alone at home to "help" her mother, the father said.

She had thought long and hard about ending her life because she didn't even know how the mother would take it and knowing how the father is, she knew she could never discuss anything of such with him. It got so bad that she got pregnant and rather than be pitied, the father said she seduced people around. No one believed her when she said it was her cousin as that one twisted the story and said she came on at him several times but he pushed her away. Her attitude of keeping to herself worked against her as they felt her absence from the house a few times with locking herself in her room meant she has a lot to hide.

Nothing hurts more when those who are supposed to have your back turn around to hurt you. She had no choice but to end her life leaving her notes behind. It took her death for them to believe their own daughter and have the cousin arrested.

The world is messed up and it's funny how people view certain situations. No one can fully understand what goes on in the head of another. We have parents who don't value the opinions of their child but that child is a girl. Since when has it been a crime to be a girl? Was the mother the father married not once a girl? Was it the fault of the child that she was born? Who determines the sex of a child and how does it have to be her fault?

When I hear some stories I just wish I could give so many people a hive five with a sledgehammer on the face. It's shameful how some people think and more disappointing when you expect better from there. I have known countless people who you would expect to be a reservoir of knowledge but these people never had a thought. In my language, we always say that it's disappointing when you expect wisdom from someone only to be met with stupidity. Indeed, the weight of sands and stones are nothing compared to what stupidity can cause.

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There is always the need for parents to earn the trust of their children. If your child won't talk to you, who else do you want her to speak with? Some people would push their child to speak with those out there whose influence would be more damaging than for them to do right by their child. Parenting isn't just about giving birth to a child and providing the basic things for them like food, clothing and shelter, it is a lot more.

Parenting is about moulding a life, guiding a life and pushing that life to be the best. I am always surprised when I hear parents talk about doing their part in feeding and clothing the child. That's not something to brag about nor is it something you should be praised for. A baby is not magic. You had unprotected sex, what were you expecting? A plasma TV? I don't get it and it's hard to understand it.

Everything in life calls for planning and when mistakes, as many would call them, happen, you have to deal with them. You can't blame the child for being born, he or she didn't ask for it and the best you can do is to help that child, guide that child, invest your time, energy and resources in that child. See that child as a mini-you... See that child to be the best and not be deprived of the things you have missed in life. Most parents take their frustration out on their child based on the upbringing they had and that's morally and logically wrong. We should seek to be better and not repeat the pattern that made us messed up.

We should encourage people to speak up and give them the help they need. I know society has been designed to frustrate us and twist our stories and this is why we need a working system where people can report these issues of molestations and harassment without being judged or looked at differently. Society is supposed to protect us while we give our best to society too. It should be a mutually beneficial arrangement but that is not the case. There are a lot of factors in place in which money and gender roles play a big part. It is sad, disheartening and shouldn't be allowed to thrive.

As good as justice was served in arresting the cousin, it wasn't enough because a life was lost in the process and nothing can replace that. The parents would have themselves to blame for it for the rest of their lives and they might have just robbed the world of another greatness in the girl that died. We need to look beyond gender and start focusing on the potential. Men alone cannot build the world...women cannot be shoved to the back because they have an equally important role to play.

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Parents must excel in parenting their children and not just left it to other people's hand. It will work sometimes but most of the time it's not. Parents shoud be the one who's in the first row to listen to their children especially when they're being quiet..and distancing theirselves..it means there's something wrong and parents should do the job in approaching them..In that way they can earn the trust of their child and will open up their probems.

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2 years ago

Thank you so much for this.

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2 years ago

Its a shame on the father's part to not value their daughters. I mean, we are precious. Girls run the world.

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2 years ago

Exactly... Shame on him.

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2 years ago

This is so sad, and this is reality. People, lots of them perish to sui*ide, and then the people around them will only realize their worth by then. :(

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2 years ago

That's humans...we know the worth and accept the truth only when nothing can be done about it anymore.

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2 years ago

That's true ola! Parents should listen also the opinion of there child. I guess all child have tell the truth cause majority of the children will just have tell the truth rather hearsays,☺️

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2 years ago

Children always speak their minds, adults are the ones who try to suppress it and make children into who they shouldn't be.

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2 years ago

You're right Ola, what parents have to their child especially the necessities in growing up and what you have provide are not something to be proud off for it is a parent's obligation in the first place. But the sad truth, most marriages especially in a third world country has parents that are uneducated and doesn't even have the knowledge about family planning.

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2 years ago

That's another factor; lack of education and it shouldn't rob them of the morality in accepting their child whether it's a boy or a girl.

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2 years ago

Yes, I was fortunate enough to be born in a country with no strict laws for family planning and gender problems. Hehe

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2 years ago

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It saddens the heart seeing parents not giving their best attentions to their children at the time they need them most. No sane person wants to be molested, and at such age "16"! A very young teenager! Cry falls from my eyes😒. When she had reported to her parents, they ought to have believed her and acted promptly, and that wouldn't have lead to killing herself.

Parents need to give their best ears to their children whenever they have things to voice out.

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2 years ago

Absolutely...it's shameful on the part of the parent because the person who ought to earn their trust, they held it back. It's shocking even more.

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2 years ago

hello kuya how are you. I'm just starting to read your article as if I have an idea of ​​what it contains. that's also my question why there are countries or people that are more important to them if their child is a boy or a girl as if they knew what gender they were coming out. shout out to all the parents out there that you don't have to expect a boy to be your child because you also don't know what GOD will give you, the important is when he/she comes out the baby is healthy, complete, with no defects and health issues that's what matter most. what is the use if he is a boy but is blind or deaf or missing a hand or toe, the question is will you still accept him? it's not the girls fault for me it was her parent's fault they love there children unfairly. is it too obvious in my comment that I'm irritated? if one day I will become a parent I will accept with open arms what will be the gender of my first born.

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2 years ago

You have every right to feel angry and irritated because this kind of injustice should never have been allowed in the first place. Parents are to accept their child, help and guide that child and I shouldn't matter which gender it is. Thanks for this lovely comment.

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2 years ago

no problem kuya, it just broke my heart that there are some parents who are like that I can't accept the fact that it is really happening.

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2 years ago

I totally understand.

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2 years ago

The world is cruel. Good people are used. Bad people are happy, and free.

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2 years ago

This is a sad reality. It's what we still can't understand as to why it always happens. It is well.

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2 years ago

It's true that girls are still underestimated and not given any importance in life. For many of them giving birth to girl child they believe is a big mistake. Give them a chance and they will make wonders.

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2 years ago

Thank you for this brilliant comment. I am in support.

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2 years ago

Thank you

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

I love the last part; "looking beyond gender and focus on potential". I feel bad when I see a girl child treated as trash and conclude no education for them because they would eventually end up in the kitchen. Some do not consider females as children. If it was so, will God ever made Eve? We need to realize that girls are also children who have great potential in them if given the right training and attention they needed.

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2 years ago

Confirmed!!! Good one. Women have great potentials and should be respected and appreciated even for that. It's shocking that some people still think archaic and wouldn't even see the direction the world is moving.

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2 years ago

Indeed, nothing hurts more when those who are supposed to have your back turn around to hurt you. I wonder why some fathers neglect their children if it's a girl. Like Whyyyy? Why can't you love them and value them? They needed you.

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2 years ago

Exactly...they needed their fathers, even their parents. I can't understand the bias and injustice. It doesn't make sense.

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2 years ago

It sad how society frown on female children like they aren't children. Many have kept their voice hidden so that they won't be mocked. The life we live shouldn't be this hard with people who are meant to protect us

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2 years ago

It is indeed sad, my dear.

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2 years ago

A really sad tale. I have always thought of the girl child as the amazing, driven and incredible go-getters that they are. When properly trained, they do twice as much... I don't understand how some people think any less of them. It's terrible. πŸ₯ΊπŸ˜©

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2 years ago

It's terrible to say the least. Every child needs the opportunity to grow and be nurtured.

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