What is social misuse?

Social - Relating to someone or people. Misuse - Wrong, improper or ill usage. Therefore social misuse means using a relationship in a wrong way.

Ways in which we can abuse or misuse relationships include;

• Gossiping and slandering our friends and relatives.

• Mere arguments and fights.

• Taking bad advantage of relatives eg by engaging them in an unacceptable sexual relations.

• Failing to help them deliberately when you are able to do so. For nstance, when a man deliberately abundons his family and goes for a second wife. 

• Chosing not to work, hence poverty and every time not having enough for the family.

• Failing to appreciate others, belittling and despising them. This happens when we fail to understand and cope with others' weaknesses. We are not equal.

Sexual misuse

Romans 1:24 - 27

• We should not dishonour the body by satisfying its sinful sexual desires.

• Men should not marry fellow men.
  

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 The wicked because of their immoral practices will not enter the kingdom of heaven 

• Galatians 5:19 Prostitution, homosexuality, rape, incest, adultery and fornication are all ways of sexual misuse.

• Sex is allowed only in marriage.

Effects of sexual misuse

Deuteronomy 28:20 - 22

• There are STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections) and STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases), which are dangerous to our health. Some of these are:

• Syphilis – affects the blood and the spinal chord.

• Gonorrhoea – causes sterility and blind- ness in children born to an infected mother.

• HIV/AIDS – leads to death. •

• Early pregnancies are another result of sexual misuse. Pupils, especially the girls, drop out of school in order to take care of the baby. 

• Sexual misuse can also result in early marriages, abortions, guilt and stress both to the affected people and their families.