It’s a reality!

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THE Deputy Commissioner and Chief of Women Support and Investigation Division (WSID) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police revealed an unimaginable horrible truth recently. She said, many guardians force their children to get involved in immoral activities with strangers for money in their residences and other places. Most of the relatives do not want to stand beside the victims who are physically challenged girls and instead denote them as dishonest and a burden on their families. And this is considered as the key reason for the destruction of the normal lives of the victims. Moreover, many families reject to receive their sexually harassed girls, drug addicted and physically challenged children from law enforcing agencies and NGOs on account of ‘money crises’ and loss of ‘family dignity’.
On one hand it’s a shocking revelation reported by a person responsible and in-charge of a very important public office, while on the other we find it highly disturbing and somewhat difficult to believe it. It’s just too difficult to believe that the love, affection and moral values of many of our parents have degenerated to such levels. Has money become so scarce and difficult to earn when the country has been labelled as a developing nation? Has ‘family dignity’ becomes more important to protect than ensuring a healthy well being and proper nurturing of our children?
However, our law enforcement agencies have failed to return even half of these helpless juvenile victims back to their respective families. Rather reluctantly, the agencies hand over many of the victims to government support centres and NGOs. Additionally, at least a dozen victims claimed that the police, their parents and family members forced them to leave homes, the WSID chief said. Why should our parents become so intolerant with their off springs?
Given a number of first-hand accounts, we mark a series of perilous traits to have developed inside the psyche of our parents. Not only have they become irresponsible as parents, but many of them tend to believe and treat their children like a commodity or a product. As long as these commodities have a social and monetary value they keep them. Otherwise, they reject them. This is highly disturbing to note that all this is happening in today’s Bangladesh.
We are aghast and ashamed to be members of a society where money and so-called adjectives like social dignity and prestige supersede the very basics of human and moral obligations.

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