Sexual harassments may happen anywhere! (1)

Nowadays, living in this metropolises in which people are facing stress from work in everyday life, for instance complaints from clients, requirements from bosses or employers, financial insecurity, etc, pushes people's attitude to an extreme edge that they would find ways and do anything to pursue success., However, during the process, moral values of modern people get distorted and a person's demeanor and behaviors become less important than how successful and great a person can be.Our common senses tell us that we cannot cheat in our examinations, cannot copy others assignments, cannot steal things in malls without paying, however, stress may lead to the psychological disorder and people becomes psychic and do things without knowing if it is right or wrong. Moreover, the consequences of what they did are ignored and put aside. Capitalist societies especially nurture people who aims and targets to pursue every single goal for their own sake.


The imbalance in stress bought from work can lead to the man in the family to do something in extreme to balance his distorted mind. Although there are sometimes news reporting about men sexually harassing their children, however I believe that those cases that come to the light might only be one in a million among all cases. Many children do not know how to handle these situations , daughters do not dare to tell their mothers and of course impossible to talk to their fathers about that. Some may aware that the breaking of those news would bring down the reputation of her dad or the family. What if her dad's boss fire him because of it? What will their relatives think about their family if they know? And most important of all, what if nobody believes in her? If she need to find prove, she may have to undergo medical checks and the next step will lead to taking action to sue her own father. Many girls do not have the guts to stand out and speak for themselves. They do not know how to face their fathers which is their closest relative. Some cases, victims may be harassed by their brothers, uncles, cousins or even grandparents. These are also embarrassing cases that no even the juvenile, but mature people do not know how to handle.


In my point of view, a few news reporting about these issues does not mean the problem in our society is not serious now. The government and social institutions should take more measures to avoid those tragedies from happening and teaching them ways to avoid it. Dear girls, in the next two articles, I will tell you more about how to prevent and what to do when you face sexual harassments from your family members.

It takes only a minute to change a life...we definitely need to know how to protect ourselves!!

-Mabel Ngan