Some rules must never exist here in Africa unless we are ready to let all the future generations go in the wrong direction in life. I live in a country where bringing up a child is like signing a life contract because if parents stop scolding or disciplining their children here in Africa, it means they are simply destroying their children's future.
My mom would always tell us, "To omo re ki o le fun o ni isin mi" in English," Train your children so that you can have peace of mind in the future. Scolding children for misbehaving should never be a bad thing, because scolding them simply means you are putting them in the right direction in life.
A child who wasn't put in the right direction by the parents or a guardian will surely have something to regret in the future, even if not much.
Now let's talk about giving a child the right to sue their parents in my country.
When I first saw the prompt, the question that came into my mind was, "What will the world look like if such rules are permitted? Especially here in Africa.
As an African lady, I know how stubborn and adamant a child can be over here, and scolding them is the only thing that puts them back on track.
Now imagine if a child could sue their parents here; it simply means almost half of my generation and some other generations would have gone out of the right direction in life.
I remember when I was a teenager, there was a guy who was disturbing me, and he always brought gifts for me to the backyard of our house. Then, I didn't want to date him because I was scared of my mom, but then I couldn't resist his gifts.
One day my mom saw the gifts; she didn't ask because she wanted to know the source of the gift. To cut a long story short, she caught me with the guy, embarrassed the guy, and then chased him away.
She then bounced back at me by giving me the hardest beating of my life. I was angry because I didn't even date the guy, and she didn't listen to my side of the story before scolding me.
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If only I could sue my mom, I wouldn't hesitate that day, and I will surely regret it in the future at the same time because I know the government organizations will support the fact that I didn't do what I was scolded for, and after that, I wouldn't be able to get away from the guy because of all the gifts he had given me, which will later push me into a relationship with him, which might destroy my life at the end.
Such rules here in Africa will only destroy children's futures because most of our children here wouldn't want to be taking corrections again; even some that are taking corrections still end up in destruction, not to talk of the ones that had the chance to sue when they were corrected.
