Friday, May 15, 2015

We are Kids with One Foot in Their Parents' Past


What must it feel like to be a father of four kids, each with a different mother? We've read in our history books men with many wives, but these men are usually able to provide for each and every wife. There is no need to worry about financial problems or too big a rivalry among the women. What happens then when it is taken into the context of one poor man with no stable job. How does he work things out? How does he take care of all of his kids? Or does he even?

I know a man that is in such a situation. A natural playboy he is. Women come and go, and maybe it's his goal to plant his seeds in all of them. What comes into fruition? Not so good things. The environment they're in becomes awry.

None of his women is married to him, and he lives with only one of them, meaning all the other kids too are left without a father to take care of them. With the measly pay that he gets, he can't possibly provide for all of them. Some of the women go to him and beg for him to come back, but what can he do? He doesn't wish to do so anymore, and he has another family to take care of. But from time to time, I would even see him flirt with another girl again. As if four isn't enough for a troublesome harem!

Still, he does try his best to provide for his kids, well not all of the kids, just some, especially the one he's currently living with. What I do not understand is why he even made a lot of them. He knows the situation that he is in, but apparently he has turned a blind eye on it. He has already left behind his other women, and consequently their kids. What will happen then to the future of these kids? We already know the importance of the existence of the parents. The children are directly affected by the decision of the parents.

Where is the limit of this boom in baby making? When will he stop? Would leaving these babies be called just another means of survival? A responsibility that has been ran away from is still a responsibility ran away from. No play with words. No excuses. Do not do something that you are not ready to take account for. It won't affect just you, but also the people around you.

Group 2
Feby Andrea Laroco
Isabella Herreria
Dally Delos Santos
Danna Ruiz
Rensea Mae De Vera
Anna Mae Alamag
Jeska Nicole Cabile

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