Domestic Violence

I had a breakfast of 'Pap and akara' today. It's been a while I tasted that combination and it made me recall an incident that happened when I was five years old.

That faithful morning, I was down with malaria and you know food will naturally nauseate you? So I puked in the bowl of pap before me. My aunt whom I was living with then didn't consider the fact that I did that ignorantly or the fact that I was sick. She rage in anger. She asked me to drink everything up; both the pap and the vomit. It was disgusting! But I had no choice.

She sat there with a cane until I took everything in the bowl. Coincidentally, my pap this morning was the same like the pap I puked in many years ago. White corn pap. And that brought the impulse to  write this.

Now, what am I trying to drive at with this story?
Domestic Violence can generally be termed as "a physical and emotional abuse against someone. Especially children and women."

Domestic Violence should be minimal against children. They are still young and it leaves them with lasting painful memories of their childhood which can make them traumatized later in life. I was brought up in and with DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.  I was and probably still an emotional weakling. It really affected me psychologically.

I look around today and still see the same scenario being played in the life of many children out there. Mostly children who are used as maids or living with an aunt or uncle. I see their pain and I imagine what this experience will breed into their future.
"The beating, starving and verbal abuse" it shouldn't be so. They are not animals or a demon.

Many children had lost their lives to this grievous act and many were left with an ill health. Those who are lucky to survive sometimes turn out to be emotionally down later in the future.

How much longer do we have to keep up with this. Do you just watch that neighbor as he/she beats up that child and refuse to caution him/her cause the child isn't related to you? This is wrong!

If we all report such cases to the police on the child's behalf, there will be a limit to it.  I know Nigerian police is an understatement, but report to the law anyway. That’s one of the many reasons we have police stations and courts of law. Those who practice this same act will be careful and reduce their maltreatment.

You can be of help to that child living in a domestic abuse.
You can be their voice and help them out.
Domestic Violence should be curbed in our society. It starts with you!
Report any case you see and save a child.
Say no to Domestic Violence!