The head of a non-profit girl's organisation, Girls Excellence Movement (GEM), has said boys may be more likely to perpetuate abuse because as children their emotions may have been neglected. 

Juliana Ama Kplorfia, the founder and Executive Director of GEM, said, unlike the girl who is given a lot of attention while growing up, "the boys because we assume he is an auto lead, they are going to be the leader anyway, their word will be law, so they just grow."

She told host Edem Knight-Tay on Joy FM's Home Affairs that boys may easily perpetuate abuse because some of them have not been taught to manage their emotions.

This is because "their emotions have never been validated at home" she explained. 

She cited examples of how in the home, the boy child's emotions are ignored when for instance he hurts himself and starts to cry. 

"Get up! get up! Be a man. Why are you behaving like a girl? You are a man".   

These things, she said result in teenagers and men who do not know how to validate the emotions of women and by extension "don't know how to say no and how to accept no comfortably.

"They grow into men who cannot accept no, especially from a woman." 

 Joy FM's Home Affairs has over the four weeks in September discussed findings from a report conducted by the Girls Excellence Movement, in which issues affecting girls' progression in Education in Ghana were highlighted; chiefly abuse.

The report which revealed that the highest perpetrators of abuse to the girl were immediate family members, also highlighted that their colleague boys, abused them a lot. 

In last Saturday's discussions on the show, discussions on how boys are being raised were had. According to Juliana, the boy who has not been taught to manage his emotions is then susceptible to learning abuse by observing the acts around him.

"Abuse is an observed behaviour," she said.