Here in Nigeria, we have a saying "Thank God say man no be God" which basically is us being grateful that man isn't God. Now people make use of this saying mostly when they find themselves in situations where they know that things could have gone horribly bad for them if the other person involved had God-like powers over their lives. So they thank God that person isn't God, because if they were God, then it would have been all over for them.
Now whenever I think of certain events that happened to me in my childhood, I always thank God that I didn't have his powers because if I did, I probably wouldn't have a family today.
One event that I remember was on this particular day that my mom and my eldest brother had ganged up on me to make my life horrible (or at least that was how I felt). I had cried so hard that day that I had taken a pen and a paper and wrote a letter to my dad who was still at work.
In that letter, I had told him about how I don't think I was my mother's child and how she and my brother hated me. I had left the letter on his desk but unfortunately (or fortunately) before he could get back from work, my mom had seen it and torn it to pieces.
I'm not proud to admit it but that day was one of those days that I had wished that I didn't have a mother or a brother, it was a day I had wished I had God-like powers so that I could just make them go puff and disappear.
If that had happened, I have no doubt I would have regretted it for the rest of my life because contrary to what I had thought, my family do love me to death and I was only just overreacting like the little kid I was.
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Now I know you guys might be wondering why I'm telling y'all this story, well it's because that's what it would feel like over here, if every child could sue their parents for every little thing they do to them. That literally would be like you giving that kid God-like powers or you handing a kid a fully loaded gun because you trust him and you know he wouldn't do nothing stupid with it, like shooting himself.
Personally, if that was the law here, then I have no doubt that I would have grown up without my parents because with the kind of upbringing I and my siblings had as kids, my dad would probably be serving ten life sentences by now.
So no, I don't think it is okay for kids to be given the rights to be able to sue their parents for every minor thing they do to them, because such a world would end up having kids with zero home training because parents will be scared to discipline their kids the right way necessary.
Lastly, like I said, if this was a thing back in my days as a little kid, my entire childhood would have been a completely different one and I doubt it would have gone in the positive direction for either me or my siblings.
