I feed myself and pay my school fees

Dear Obaa Yaa

I AM a 16-year old girl and live with my mother and father at Osu. A lot of things goes through my mind because I wonder if they are my real parents because they don’t take care of me.

I pay my own fees and feed myself, and what annoys me most is that my father sometimes ask me for money.

They don’t even ask me where I get the money from. My parents are really irritating me with this attitude of theirs. Even though they are both un­employed, I don’t think it’s an excuse enough for them to neglect me.

Gloria,

Senya Beraku.

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Dear Gloria,

IF your parents are unemployed, they naturally cannot care for you exactly the way you want.

What you have to do is to pray that your parents gets something to do so that they can be in a position to care for you.

Meanwhile, try as much as possible not to ‘sell’ yourself to unscrupulous men just because your parents are not looking after you.

If you are not in school, that is if you are on vacation, try and do some trading so that you can earn some income for your upkeep until things improve.

As for your parents not asking you about the source of your money, I don’t believe you have to make any case out of it.

The most important thing to con­sider is that the source must be clean. Don’t get money out of immorality, and lose your life in the proces