‘Failed parenting responsible for moral decadence’

The national coordinator of the Association for Universal Moral Education in Nigeria, Rev. Sister Therese Nwodo, has blamed failed parenting for the spate of moral decadence in the society.  She said poor family orientation has made youths susceptible to societal and peer influences and called for a stronger relationship between the family and the child. […]

The national coordinator of the Association for Universal Moral Education in Nigeria, Rev. Sister Therese Nwodo, has blamed failed parenting for the spate of moral decadence in the society. 

She said poor family orientation has made youths susceptible to societal and peer influences and called for a stronger relationship between the family and the child.

 Nwodo, who was reacting to the alleged sex scandal involving a beauty queen in Anambra recently, said such behaviours signalled social malfunctioning where morals and values are no longer strong. 

The Catholic sister called on the Nigerian public not to further traumatize the beauty queen by dramatizing her situation but to offer her psychological and spiritual succour to overcome the crisis. 

“The lesbianism story about the beauty queen is unfortunate; it is symptomatic of what is going on in the society now. Our values have gone down; parents are no longer available to teach their children what is socially acceptable.

 “Whatever the case, whether she was lured or coerced, if the values were there she should have had the character to say no but because society itself rewards such act, she fell for it, so we must look at our value system again.

 “But this is not the time for a blame game. Somebody is now traumatised and we should make an effort to bring her back into the society to become a normal human again,” she stated.