It’s unhelpful to ask women to tolerate irresponsible husbands, says Nigerian lecturer Jibril Abdulmalik

Let’s hear him as he continues:

Women especially elderly women – our mothers — need to stop telling women to be patient when their husbands are irresponsible and misbehaving. 

It isn’t helpful. It also starts from social acculturation. From childhood, we allow boys to play football and we tell the girls to work in the kitchen to be able to look after their husbands. But nobody is teaching the boys how to treat women when they grow up to become men or husbands. 

So, we give them a free pass when they misbehave and say ‘boys will be boys’. But when a girl misbehaves, we have zero tolerance for it.

So, from childhood, we should start changing the mindset. We should not just be bringing up responsible girls to become responsible wives, we should also be bringing up responsible boys to become responsible husbands. 

Otherwise, it would be the irresponsible boys that would become irresponsible men that will marry the responsible women and make their lives hellm

@Cable.


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