Father, Pay Attention To Mother's Happiness So That The Family's Custody Is Full Of Love

JAKARTA - Every mother, both working and focusing on household matters, is equally responsible for providing good quality of children's education. As a couple, fathers must understand that mother's mental happiness during parenting and realizing children's health and protection.

Secretary of the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, Tribudiarta Nur Sitepu, reminded the public that parenting and children's education are not only the mother's job but need to be divided equally between mother and father.

Pridiarta then discussed the importance of mothers feeling happy because by having good health, she is able to provide exclusive breast milk and affect children's happiness, health and provide parenting that is filled with love.

"Meanwhile, mothers who experience violence, stress, depression, lack support from their families will have a very negative impact on their mental health and on the children they care for," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Tuesday, August 22.

Then, regarding the fulfillment of rights and protection for children, this is a basic obligation that must be available in order to produce quality human resources.

He said, there are four basic rights of children, namely the right to life, the right to grow and develop, the right to protection and the right to participate.

"To create a healthy and quality Indonesian child, the fulfillment of children's rights needs to be fought for. Speaking of quality human resources, issues related to health and child protection are guaranteed to be important conditions," he said.

Pridiarta then said there were several issues related to children's health and could be a problem when children grow up, including cigarettes and drugs, malnutrition or malnutrition, mental health, infectious and non-communicable diseases and violence against children.

Especially for cigarettes, on that occasion, the Head of the University of Indonesia Social Security Study Center (PKJS UI) Ir. Aryana Satrya, MM, Ph.D. said that currently in Indonesia there is an increase in the prevalence of smoking for children. In addition, more than 60 percent of children who tried to stop smoking turned out to be recovering.

"Stunting, especially in poor families and they spend a lot of their consumption on cigarettes. In addition, the role of age and price greatly affects children in cigarette consumption," he said.

Chairman of the National Tobacco Control Committee Dr Hasbullah Thabrany, M.P.H., Dr.P.h. revealed the facts related to smoking in children, one of which is data that around 20 percent of students in grades 7 to 9 (SMP) have smoked.

The bad impact that a child can experience if he is constantly exposed to cigarettes is addiction and this is difficult to cure.

"If children are addicted to smoking, until they grow up, 30-40 years spent their money on cigarettes. Many children are addicted and cannot come out again," he said in Jakarta, Tuesday.

Speaking of data related to children who smoke, the Lead Manager Program for the Early Childhood Prevention Acceleration Team of the Vice Presidential Secretariat (Satwapres) Iing Mursalin said as many as 69.42 percent of early childhood, namely 0-6 years living in one family member, smoked.

According to him, it is not easy to educate smoking, especially considering that there is one family member who applies this habit.

According to the Ministry of Health, cigarette exposure in children results in a series of impacts, including disrupting learning achievements, impaired intelligence and learning skills, disrupting lung development, causing children to be easily infected with diseases such as meningitis, middle ear infections, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, lymphoma and airing.

Another impact is that it is difficult for children to recover when they are sick because their immune system decreases, experience skin disorders and dental plaque, children appear to be older than their true age, addicted to negative behavior, aggressive behavior and challenging likes.

Data from Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) states that there is an increase in the prevalence of smoking for a population of 10 years from 28.8 percent in 2013 to 29.3 percent in 2018.

Meanwhile, the prevalence of smoking in the 10-18 year age population rose by 1.9 percent from 2013 (7.2 percent) to 2018 (9.1 percent).

In Indonesia, deaths due to 33 diseases related to smoking behavior reached 230,862 in 2015, with a total macro loss of IDR 596.61 trillion.

Tobacco kills 290,000 people every year in Indonesia and is the biggest cause of death from non-communicable disease.

Smoking is a risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer.

Speaking of efforts to prevent children from being exposed to cigarettes, the Ministry of Health said, they need to continue to increase their awareness about the dangers of using cigarettes.