Uganda, Dec. 8 -- Growing up in Africa has become more and more of a harsh-reality for the boy child. The cultural constructs coupled with the societal expectations threaten to endanger the freedoms and opportunities of the boy child. It is common knowledge that most of the African cultures have placed very high expectations on the tender shoulders of the boy child.

As the boy-child grows to manhood, he is faced with a diversity of challenges such as domestic violence, among others, the burden of providing livelihood for the family as father and husband, even when the wife earns more than the husband.

On various occasions, there have been cases of men being victims of domestic violence mostly verbal and psychological/ mental violence at...