He never really “protected” the baby while she was pregnant with Dad's child. Jaja spoke of raising his fist and protecting the unborn child from Papa's abuse, desperately trying to prevent a repeat of troubling events by not letting Papa abuse his mother and cause another miscarriage. But Jaja was helpless when the time came. He said, “We will take care of the baby; we will protect him” (Adichie 23). Yet he sat in his room and listened to his mother being beaten until she was covered in blood, and his father, his mother's attacker, had to drop her on his shoulder like a beam and take to hospital. Almost cowardly, believing that he does not have the power to intervene, Jaja withdraws, saying: “There is blood on the floor…I will get the brush from the bathroom” (Adichie 33). Ultimately, Jaja failed in his self-appointed task of protecting the baby, and despite all that talk, he left the action omitted from his plans, resulting in Mom's second miscarriage. “There was an accident, the baby left” (Adichie, 34 years old). Jaja said he would do what he could to protect the family, making it his responsibility regardless of age or identity, meaning his mother losing a child and allowing his father to do/let that happen producing is also his responsibility. He should have at least tried to protect his mother like he said, instead of being helpless and letting his mother go.