Prepare a man for tomorrow
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

We must accept that this child has been given by God to us and it is the best gift from His side. We, the parents have been nominated by God to prepare this child to become a man or a woman of tomorrow. We are given this work and God desires that the parents should function as God for the child and they must take care of the child to the full. It is the duty of the parents to look after the child. They shall be bringing up the child, they shall be giving him all traditions, they shall be giving him the religion to which this child belong, they shall give to the child the caste to which this child belong and at the same time the parents shall have to see that the child is given proper discipline of the family, of the society to which he belongs and they shall give him proper education, proper training and they shall bee that he is adjusted at a work from which he shall be drawing proper income with which the man of tomorrow shall be running the family administration. They must be cautious that the child is being trained for the work in which he shall be adjusted after completing the training and he shall not be in those lists where there are a number of people sitting idle and waiting for employment. The man is having a short life, therefore, the waiting period should be less and it could be done only if t he parents know which are the professions, trades, callings and employments where there are surplus people and which are the lines in which workers are in short supply. If need be, the parents should provide vocational guidance to the child.
The parents should limit their children so that they could see that the children are given proper help. If the income of the parents is on lower side, they should utilize family planning rules and must see that they have got limited number of children. The cost of preparing a child is on the higher side and therefore, each family must have a limited number of children. If they fail in raising this child in a proper manner, then they shall be repenting in old age because these children of today shall be bringing for them bad news and the people shall start criticizing the parents who had provided to the society such bad children. We do not need drunkards, drug addicts, criminals, people who commit sins and misconducts. We need people who are serving the people and are not creating any problems for the family and the people around them. Therefore, the duty of the parents is hard and they must be cautious at all the times till they are alive. The people who give proper people to the society around them are happy in old age, but the people who created criminals, drug addicts, opium eaters, drunkards for the society shall not feel peace and they shall be getting adverse remarks from the people around them.
In countries like India, the parents are not in a position to provide all these facilities to their children and even the state has got no resources to look after these children. That is the reason, we note that most of the youths are idle and are not getting proper jobs. They are fit for general vacancies which are short in number and that is the reason most of them turn drug addicts, criminals, drunkards, opium eaters, could be engaged as terrorists and could be deployed in riots. The parents in India have failed. The government of India has failed. That is the reason, there are unemployed people, there are beggars, there are people who have turned terrorists, there are people who are ready to indulge in riots, who could be deployed to kill people against money. When we are talking that we shall be in line with the developed countries by 2020 A.D., we do not know what shall be the methods with which we shall be able to root out all these problems attached with the youths of today. The parents and the state must join together and concentrate on the children of today so that we could be able to construct a good social life and a good society within the next twenty five years. If we go with the present speed, we should not reach any target.
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