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 21 century as we enter the fourth industrial revolution. Families are the pillars of the nations but, then how do you make sure families are stable in the era where everyone is concerned with survival,making the next million and becoming a billionaire amidst harsh world economic conditions? The economies continue to suffer and unemployment seriously increasing around the world which has trickled down to 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 early than checking on how the daughter or son spent the night. The African family conversations are dying each day. There is a collective agenda needed to be set in place by world economies to save families in this globalization era where family styles in USA have a direct impact on the ones in Rwanda or else around the globe. Enock Nkulanga
