Single Mothers Association leader in the Upper East Region Faustina Tine Abagre says, they formed the group because girls are rendered unless by men with no conscience in the society, especially within the Frafra-speaking areas. Apexnewsgh.com
Giving some explanation to Apexnewsgh.com, Madam Abagre said: “Formerly, if a couple got married and they were not able to give birth to a male child, they picked one of their girl children to remain at home to enable a distance relative to produce the child with her.
And on the process, if they get a male child, that child will now inherit the house in the future. But that was abused” She stressed.
“It was abused in the sense that, once they know they can sleep with you but can’t marry you, they will come and lure you into this relationship, make children with you go out and marry another woman and leave you with the children”.
“So, if you are not able to take care of your children to go to school, they will be street children, they will go wayward and is a problem in the society. So, we decided to form the Single Mother’s Association to fight that canker. So that stakeholders will allow men who do that to women to be able to marry them and don’t leave them to suffer with the children”.
“They forced girls to be a dropout, when the girl is getting to secondary, because of this distance relationship they will lure you into pregnancy, and then, you are a dropout.
Madam Abagre said they have been engaging stakeholders and the chiefs to see whether a bye-law can be secured to help bring such canker to order. So that if someone is able to sleep with a woman, he should be able to marry her without putting her life and the innocent children at risk.
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