Do you Believe that Corruption Starts at Home?
@breakfastgirl (66)
Philippines
April 29, 2007 3:03am CST
I guess many of the things that contributed to corruption have started at home... let's say, at home when children ask more than what they're supposed to ask that is already a form of corruption. Just this year, two students in a university have been accused for stealing funds from an office they belonged (organization) one of these two students was a friend of mine. I look up at him like a younger brother, we eat together during lunch and go to places we enjoy. He sometimes drop me home after work. We were good friends then, no malice at all. He helps me with computer designings and i help him with research also and some other stuffs where we help each other. When he was accused of getting funds from an office i felt bad and was so sad... he cheated on alot of people including myself, he did not return a precious thing that was given to me by another friend of mine and to sum it up, he reasoned that all the things he stole including computer parts have been destroyed. I did not believe him for once. On those times that we have been good friends he always tells me that he often asks more than half of his supposedly school fees... and the excess money he'll spend for his computer and other things that he wants to buy. yes, he is a very ambitious person. I guess, his corruption in school have started in their own house...his parents nor his siblings did not even bothered to look into his statement of accounts to verify if what he was asking was more than what he should be asking.... if only they have supervised him well with his finances, he could have graduated decently and not leaving bad marks in the school. I know her sister, she was my batchmate during college, she was a good person but what his brother did have surely put a lot of shame in their family and surely it has pained them.
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@elshaddai123 (3981)
• Kottayam, India
29 Apr 07
It might be also from friends, but you to discourage at the first sight.
@breakfastgirl (66)
• Philippines
29 Apr 07
i did countless of times..i told him not to ask more than what was stated in his statement account but instead of listening to me..he still continue doing it and said his siblings are earning a lot and they would not mind.
@venkyvenky (621)
• India
29 Apr 07
surely.even at home i see many parents telling their children "if you do this, i will buy you this,if yous tudy wella nd get the top rank, i will buy yoiu a bicycle" corruption starts right here for sure. tis is how it spreads across the home, then close relatives,friends,area,state and the country.
@breakfastgirl (66)
• Philippines
29 Apr 07
that's another point venkyvenky..wrong motivation done by parents and they don't know that the impacts of this is that they are teaching their children that in every favor they do for any people either family or friends there's a money equivalent to it or a favor must be returned with another good favor.
@psyche49f (2502)
• Philippines
29 Apr 07
I can relate well to this experience, that's why I may be a bit subjective with my response--yes, corruption may start at home, and if not corrected, can spill over in other areas. Growing children should be taught little lessons on honesty. When my children were in grade school and came home with a pencil or a sharperner or a book inside their bags that do not belong to them, I order them to return the items at once first thing in the morning. And I was very consistent on this. I always expect my children to ask permission whenever they go out or anything that needs my permission. I keep track of their expenses in school, and discovered that my two kids have never overstated any expenses in school nor have been so preoccupied with things that they should get. In other words, I have trained them to be contented of what they have. Their school allowances are very minimal, but they do not ask for more. Little things such as those I mentioned above means so much as they train children to make do with what they have, instead of having high ambitions at the expense of stealing in order to get what they want.
