Four speakers discuss overlooked challenges facing boys: exposure to vices in schools causing confusion about identity, the problems with single-gender boarding schools during formative years, and widespread sexual abuse by caregivers that parents often miss. They call for greater awareness and protective measures.
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What's going on with the boys in school? Who's checking up on the boys? Some of these schools, they go there, they can't come back to say what is happening. They're introduced to all forms of vices, and then the guy start feeling that he's feeling he ought not to be a guy, he ought to be a girl, start behaving like that, and then start liking other guys, you know. And I think these are conversations that needs to happen, you know.
Um, I went to boarding school Yeah, um, but as God would have it, I went to a mixed boarding school, and I don't think without decadence society has gotten right now, that a same gender school, boarding school, I don't see the need for it. I don't think that in a, in the most formative years of a child when the hormones are raging, he should be surrounded with only people. Is, is an anti-social wiring. Right. I think for whatever reason it was established, I strongly believe that that reason has long been defeated.
For the boy child, we actually, we don't pay attention to them as much. The society don't say so much because it's always a girl child. This could happen, that could happen, and this could happen. For the boy child, there's so many young, very little boys who are abused by their caregiver.
Wow.
Yeah, from that age of 2, 3, and thereabouts, you have their caregiver will bathe for them and do all manner of things to them that they will not tell you. So yes, as much as you're busy, pay attention to how your children are being cared for. So for the boy child, if you don't get them at that early age, yeah, they'll begin to listen more to someone else. True. They'll begin to learn more from someone else. And at the end of the day, you lose them totally. Totally.
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