Question

ldentify seven factors that are undermining the role of elders in Kenya today.

Answer 1

• Most judicial duties have been taken over by the courts.
• Christianity/modern religions have established their own leadership styles/systems.
• Western education/the learned no longer value the elders.
• Urbanization/migration has made people to move away from their communities.
• Western culture/way of life which promotes individualism.
• Intermarriage/intermingling has weakened the values of elders.
• The laws are made in parliament/constitution of Kenya is applied.
• Influence from modern technology where people rely on it for information.
• Wealth is taken as a symbol of status regardless of one's age.
• Permissiveness /moral decadence to the society