Time to get tough on adultery, polygamy

Letters

THE backbone of every country is its human resource and to have good citizens, we must raise them in good family units.
It doesn’t really matter if they have money or not, what matters is that there are parents to give children the love and security they need to grow up to be good citizens.
Yet Papua New Guinea now has an increasing number of broken homes and polygamous marriages.
Men are free to just dump their wives and children and start another family because adultery is a civil case, they are not prosecuted.
Instead, they just pay a fine of K1,000 and are free to walk off into their new lives.
It’s time laws on family protection are toughened, men and women having adulterous relationships should be prosecuted and serve time so that it deters others from doing the same and destroying the lives of little innocent children who are the most affected when their parents split.
Polygamy must also be outlawed.
Though I know many of us come from such families, we are no longer in the 60s and 70s.
It’s time we put in tougher laws to protect families for the sake of the children.
We say that we are a “Christian country” so let’s set laws that will govern those Christian principles.

Frustrated
POM