PARENTS play a crucial role in ensuring that they inculcate good morals in their children to avoid juvenile delinquency in society, a child rights activist has said.
Media Network on Child Rights and Development executive Henry Kabwe said this on Wednesday following the recent arrest of school pupils in Chingola who held a sex party.
Mr Kabwe also said society should not be quick to link juvenile delinquency to the promotion of children’s rights.
“It is unfortunate that most parents and guardians are running away from their responsibility of inculcating good morals in children. This is a ‘crisis’ to the nation.
The sex party which those children had is a direct link to failure by parents to take-up their obligations.
We need to establish where the parents were when the act happened,” he said.
Mr Kabwe said parents should also be concerned that children are engaging in illicit activities due to technological advancements, such as the internet.
In a separate interview, Children in Need Network executive director Theresa Mwansa described the recent sex party as a child protection concern, signalling parents’ failure to pay particular attention to what their children are doing.
Ms Mwansa said academic excellence should go hand-in-hand with the promotion of good morals in schools.
“Academic excellence alone is not good enough; it must be accompanied with good morals. We must take a holistic approach in the up-bringing of our future generation,” Ms Mwansa said
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