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The impact of domestic conflict on the children's education
Uwajeneza Donatha
Jun 16, 2024 - 14:14
Family conflict can have significant and lasting effects on children's education, impacting various aspects of their academic and emotional development. Some of them can have long-lasting consequences that extend into adulthood. One of these effects is dropping out of school which can reduce opportunities in the future.
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Ms. Nareme Diane is 20 years old, and the firstborn in a family of six children of Twizerimana Emmanuel and Mrs. Uwamahoro Jeannette who lived in conflict for more than 15 Years. Because of that, she dropped out her school.
When you converse with her, she tells you that her dream of being educated had ended due to the lack of school materials like uniforms, notebooks…and other basic materials needed. The big source of that family conflict was her Dad, Twizerimana, who is now transformed.
“It was tough! Dad would arrive home drunk and fight with Maman, it affected us a lot. There were times when we cooked but didn't have the manners to eat, studying was a problem, then someone would ask for a notebook and he said 'Ask Maman'. And Maman would say, ' Go and ask Dad!' and then it becomes a yelling, ending with no notebook, and he couldn't go to school,” she revealed.
“I dropped out of school because of the conflict, and the capacity was limited. But now it's perfect, my siblings are learning, “she added.
Ms. Nareme says that her education is over but now she thinks she will learn a profession.
“I can't go back to school, I can't take it. Now I have to study something that gives me money so that I can improve myself. I would learn a profession to earn a living. ”
Twizerimana Emmanuel, the father of Ms. Nareme, says he started causing conflict in his family when he married Mrs. Uwamahoro because he did not know the rights of women, especially about property.
“Being conflicted is because in the past the woman did not agree with me, especially about the property because I felt it belonged to the man, but the woman never touched it. But now after the training we have changed. The woman is free. Now there is a problem at home or a child is expelled from school, she does not have to ask me because she has the right to sell it because it is our property," Twizerimana highlighted.
Mrs. Uwamahoro says that her eldest daughter was unable to study, but now others are studying and getting all the necessary materials.
She also says that she and her husband now share all the responsibilities, and she gives them an idea to develop their home. The change in their relationship turned them into role models in the community so they could help others.
Ms. Nareme's family is now living in peace. She testifies that her parents will no longer argue after his father's transformation, and her parents consult in everything from the seeds to the farm, how the produce will be used for their development...
She says they also help each other to raise them as their own children, including conversing with them. They also help other families living in conflict.
She asks other parents who have conflicts to let it, work together, and understand each other so that their children do not have sex and get pregnant unplanned... She also asks his fellow youth to obey their parents.
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