Child Care

 Written by: Mir Aqa Itebar

Everyone needs to choose someone as a friend to talk and discusses his/her problems with him/her but sometimes some friends cause problems.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some people about this issue.

Sangar, a resident of Laghman province says: “one of my friends was an educated and a polite boy but he started to be friend with wonderer boys. He started smoking and lately he addicted to drugs and when he had no money to prepare the drugs, he was stealing anything he found at home and finally, the police caught him and now he is in a jail.”

A girl says: “I found a girl as my best friend and I was always going with her everywhere. My mother was preventing me but I was not accepting. One day, the girl stole money from someone. As I was her close friend, the police caught me too and now I am in the juvenile rehabilitation center with her.”

Omid, a resident of Laghman province says: “At the beginning, I was a good boy and I was respecting my parents. I was going to class, and study my lessons. One day my friends asked me to go out of school with them. They asked me to smoke and I smoked. One day I went to a wedding ceremony with them and they gave hashish for smoking and finally, I addicted to drugs. When we needed drug, one of my friends took me on his motorbike and we were stealing mobile phones from the passersby and thus my parents lost their trust in me.”

What are the causes of this issue?

Sangar says: “my parents did not pay any attention to me and they did not ask me even once that who my friends are.”

How could families help to solve this issue?

Abdul Wahab, a resident of Kabul city says: “some wonderer boys were gathering in our residential area. Our elders decided in the residential council to go to the houses of these boys and share the issue with their families. They also talked with those boys and told about the dangers of smoking and drugs. Some of them quit the addiction and those, who were from the other areas, they left our area.”