“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul, then the way it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela
Children are the global natural resources of the future, if we choose to ignore them we choose to ignore the prosperity of the future. Children are one investment which we should never be taken for granted or put on hold. However far to many children enter into this world into a society which underestimates their value, and which fails to invest in their worth.
Children often born into a society where childhood rarely ceases to exist, forced to endure the labor most adults loath and fear; to toil in the fields, swim the danger waters for fish, risk life and limb in the minds, etc. Children are recruited into the worlds most brutal armies, forced to commit and witness atrocities for which no man, woman or child should ever have to see. Young girls and boys our touted as sexual slaves, treated like disposable commodities. Girls are marginalized, treated as an inferior as societies continually fail to see their wealth.
Societies must begin to do some soul searching and begin to change the way in which we treat our children, for if not we will only have a future of instability and lost children to look forward to.
