Paper 1 · unhu/Ubuntu and parenting
A balanced conclusion on parental responsibility for the loss of unhu in children would be that parents are...
Aresponsible only in towns, where the extended family is absent
Bfree of responsibility, since children make their own choices
Cthe whole cause, because the home is the one agent that teaches
Dlargely but not solely responsible, since other pressures also act
Explanation: Primary socialisation happens at home and children copy what they see, so parents are the leading agent. But schools, churches, media, peers, poverty and migration all act on the same child, and many careful parents raise children who lose unhu, so responsibility is shared.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies Paper 1, November 2021, Q1