SOME PNG FATHERS ARE LAZY BUMS

Young boys do not realize that they have a major problem. Many will grow to adulthood having had no responsibilities as young boys. Their fathers did no work which fell to the wife and daughters.


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The young boy in the family has never had the experience of work. This has spilt over to his school work and he has failed through a total lack of self discipline. His only work has been to swim in the river and throw stones.

He will grow up to marry a woman and carry on the same lack of work. He is unemployable. He will never bring a wage home and will demand a share of any money his wife earns in the market for her crop of vegetables.

His son is watching his boozing and violence and regarding his father as his key role model. He watches him bashing his wife, the boy’s mother. That is the way to go.

Young women have to take care in the man they marry. He is not worth marrying if he has never had a job. A wise woman will marry a man who is employed in business or self-employed.

The problem is that the woman as a young girl was not sent to school and will only find a man unemployable like her.

I know a young woman who went as far as grade 4. Now at the age of 19, she has married a boy who has never had a job. And she has no job. So where will their money come from?

The greatest boost to young families is coming with the Exxon-Mobil LNG project. It will provide employment for hundreds of young people together with skills, education and a work ethic.

The communities up the Gulf Province to the Southern Highlands are going to provide hundreds of eligible young men and women.

Young people who have gone on to advanced studies, may well have had strong parental role models.

Thomas Hukahu is a journalist who writes on educational matters in The National. Today he wrote of a learning culture that exists in some schools and homes.

Children follow their role model parents and brothers and sisters to absorb learning and skills without even realizing. They read books and newspapers. They write letters and lift their standard by following their family role models. They listen to conversations on a wide range of topics.

Often, the lower the education, the more stupid the man. He is firm in his own ideas based on the belief that a man does what a man does. No-one tells a man what to do. He will always smoke. Who cares about lung cancer? I do not care what you say about homebrew. I am a man and I will drink what I like.

He will never use a condom. A man never uses a condom. He will accuse someone of sorcery with no evidence. How do we help his family? We can not.