‘Check up on wards who don’t visit after getting married’

Rev Albert Seth Ocran,  the Former General Director

for the Torchbearers Mission Incorporated

A former General Director of the Torchbearers Mission Incorpo­rated (TMI) Rev. Albert Seth Ocran has advised parents to check up on their children, especially daughters, who are unable to visit them after getting married.

TMI is a missionary organisation at Korle Gonno in Accra. “Sometimes even the parents do not visit their children and they always give excuses. When you observe this trend, do not take it for granted because there is usually more to the story” he said.

Rev. Ocran was speaking in an in­terview with The Spectator on Friday on the need to draw the attention of parents to the subject of controlling behaviours of spouses.

According to him, this issue causes isolation among spouses, family and friends, hence there was the need for parents to be vigilant to address such issues.

He said there were signs to in­dicate when a spouse was being abused, which include restricting access to financial resources, em­ployment, education or even medi­cal care.

Rev. Ocran said most often when parents of such spouses try to make enquiry about why their children do not visit them, they always give excuses, with the most common one being “I am busy”.

He observed that in some cases, children of such spouses were not spared, as they had to endure the abuse of not being able to get in touch with others.

He said abusers ensure that their victims do not get access to the outside world to communicate their pain with them. “It is even worse when the couple lives abroad or far from their fam­ilies  

From Dzifa Tetteh Tay, Tema.