冰的起点

Recently, the press media had revealed countless reports on parents mistreating/abusing/torturing their children. Such issue deserves serious attention from the community, especially the parents-to-be, are you really prepared to be a mother/father?

In a very recent tragedy of a babysitter, who is also a mother, hang herself in front of the kids. reported in the newspaper, it reminded me an incident which I came across few years back when I was still a trainee reporter with a Chinese Press in Malaysia. I remember that it was an afternoon when the senior reporter in the office brought me to the scene where the tragedy took place. A mother, locked her three kids in the house, while she herself standing in the car porch, set herself on fire, in front of her three kids, who are still very young, at their schooling age. The incident left me a great impact, especially on my perception of the responsibility of parents.

Yes, it is about committing suicide in front of their own children. How could a mother/father do such cruel thing to their kids? To witness a person dying helplessly, I believe, is the most mental-torturing abuse to a human being. In my understanding, parents should safeguard their children, BY ALL MEANS, give them love, care for them, protect them. However, nowadays, we are reading news about parents committing suicide in front of their children, leaving behind indelible impacts on the children. The kids might be in horrifying nightmare for the rest of their lives. Questions surrounding the death of their beloved parents may bother them for the rest of their lives. The suffer might be never-ending.

In short, I would say, "If you are not ready to become a mother/father, don't risk to be one; If you happened to be, take the responsible by all means; Do not ever leave behind your responsibilities on them, because, it was you who brought them to this world; Everybody can abandon them as they like, EXCEPT YOU".