Dear Editor,
I find it interesting that we want to be a nation where by 2030 Jamaica is the place to raise our families. For it to be such a place we have to first recognise the importance of family and instil in the society the attitudes and the values to produce good families.
We have a tendency to want the end without establishing the means to make it work. In addition, one group might be trying to establish the means but another is undermining the very effort.
For example, some people are fighting to protect our children from certain influences through music, while others are fighting against them through their intellect and support of pornographic and sexually explicit music. We have to resolve in our minds what it is we want in this nation.
We make up plenty of noise when children are having sex with children on buses, whilst adults are having sex with children. Several people, however, see nothing wrong in promoting children having sex. We seem to want to remove all barriers when it comes to sex. With this great promotion of sex without restrictions, in respect to our value system we are going to increase and multiply teenage pregnancies, HIV cases, paedophiles, incest, children having sex with adults, and rapes among both males and females. The end result, our values and morals will be disfigured and we will end up not knowing what a real and healthy family is all about.
Right now we have a problem, with many men not taking responsibility for their children because they do not know nor understand what a real family is all about. They do not end up being committed to their families, which include their children and the children's mother. It is said that one of the best things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
What we sow is what we will reap; no matter if you are the USA, the UK or any other nation. Jamaica is already reaping from its sowing in the 70s and 80s with respect to the promotion of violence in our inner-city communities, what more do we want in this nation?
We cannot build our nation on the values of others. We tried that and it did not work for Jamaica as well as for many other nations. We have to come up with our own value system and one not based on pressure from outside. One US Government might believe in same-sex marriage, however,when the next one comes into power they have a different view and the pressure from the US changes. We cannot let them decide our values, morals and attitudes, thereby our destiny.
If we were to take a leaf out of Singapore's book we would establish our own values, no matter what the big nations say, and hopefully these would be the right values, then we would turn around our country and have the possibility of reaching our vision 2030 goal of Jamaica being the place of choice to raise our families.
Bruce Fletcher
Bruceaf@hotmail.com
We have to decide what we want for this nation
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I find it interesting that we want to be a nation where by 2030 Jamaica is the place to raise our families. For it to be such a place we have to first recognise the importance of family and instil in the society the attitudes and the values to produce good families.
We have a tendency to want the end without establishing the means to make it work. In addition, one group might be trying to establish the means but another is undermining the very effort.
For example, some people are fighting to protect our children from certain influences through music, while others are fighting against them through their intellect and support of pornographic and sexually explicit music. We have to resolve in our minds what it is we want in this nation.
We make up plenty of noise when children are having sex with children on buses, whilst adults are having sex with children. Several people, however, see nothing wrong in promoting children having sex. We seem to want to remove all barriers when it comes to sex. With this great promotion of sex without restrictions, in respect to our value system we are going to increase and multiply teenage pregnancies, HIV cases, paedophiles, incest, children having sex with adults, and rapes among both males and females. The end result, our values and morals will be disfigured and we will end up not knowing what a real and healthy family is all about.
Right now we have a problem, with many men not taking responsibility for their children because they do not know nor understand what a real family is all about. They do not end up being committed to their families, which include their children and the children's mother. It is said that one of the best things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
What we sow is what we will reap; no matter if you are the USA, the UK or any other nation. Jamaica is already reaping from its sowing in the 70s and 80s with respect to the promotion of violence in our inner-city communities, what more do we want in this nation?
We cannot build our nation on the values of others. We tried that and it did not work for Jamaica as well as for many other nations. We have to come up with our own value system and one not based on pressure from outside. One US Government might believe in same-sex marriage, however,when the next one comes into power they have a different view and the pressure from the US changes. We cannot let them decide our values, morals and attitudes, thereby our destiny.
If we were to take a leaf out of Singapore's book we would establish our own values, no matter what the big nations say, and hopefully these would be the right values, then we would turn around our country and have the possibility of reaching our vision 2030 goal of Jamaica being the place of choice to raise our families.
Bruce Fletcher
Bruceaf@hotmail.com
We have to decide what we want for this nation
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