Editor, RE: “Is parenting on its deathbed?” (The New Times, June 23). This article addresses a very crucial challenge in families today. I am sure it is going to escalate in this 21st century as we enter the fourth industrial revolution. Families are the pillars of nations but then how do you make sure families are stable in an era where everyone is concerned with survival, making the next million and becoming a billionaire amidst harsh world economic conditions? Economies continue to suffer and unemployment increasing around the world which affects family institutions. The third and fourth industrial revolutions have brought disruptive technologies which continue to kill parent-child relationships. Parents are concerned with how to report at work in time than checking on how their daughter or son spent the night. The African family conversations are dying by the day. There is a collective agenda needed to be put in place by world economies to save families in this globalization era where family styles in the US, for instance, have a direct impact on the ones in Rwanda or elsewhere around the world. Enock Nkulanga
