Children Of The Slum

The child sucked hungrily on its mother's breast milk, like some animal that hasn't eaten for weeks that have yet to come as the mother watches her newly born child suck her breast milk she had felt satisfied.

The child's father however was always out working day and night to provide for his own family only coming home finding his first child was a girl.

knowing he would then be a laughing stock in the small village that he and his family had lived for many years now would be humiliated by a female child only yet new born. As the man thought about killing his daughter he looked over at her to find her laughing and smiling at him, the man thought some more and could not bear to kill the gift for has sent for he was bless to have a child he could provide for.