An ounce of prevention
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) has quickly stepped into the heart of the situation and is providing forms of relief, from shelter to the provision of food basket.
While the Office’s actions are commendable, it is necessary to also consider that with progressive planning or prudent interventions, these disasters are avoidable.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...