A child is always an asset. Liability with regards to humans is not assessed purely and only from economic view point since a human person has a great dignity because of being a child of God and also has body and soul (material and spiritual being).A human person therefore cannot be seen and assessed in same way as other non human economic items or businesses. Nor be seen as an economic liability. This is because a human person has so many aspects and gifts & potentials endowed that he can’t but be always a great asset!! Every child or human person is a great investment waiting to mature.
Even if presently he is starving, poor sickly and uneducated with a “useless” job or future. Even in dying and in immediate death, or long after death, the immense good a human is capable of doing to others and the society is beyond quantifying financially.
Even evil men and their evil, help the society in numerous ways including reaffirming society’s resolve to improve laws and condition that reduce such evil and suffering. In summary, every child or human person is always and will always be an asset intrinsically and based primarily on his being a child of God, and not on his usefulness from a human point of view.
By Dr. Mark Nwoga, University Of Nigeria Nsukka
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