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The Parental Monitoring And Religious Activities On Sexual Abstinence
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Charity is always believed to
begin at home. So, as a parental, monitoring of the children is very
essential and, the teaching of moral lessons so that, even if peer would
influence such a child it will be of bearest minimal and such child
might have developed a filter to choose from shaft and powder. Many
policy makers, health professionals, and “safe sex†advocates respond to
parental influence and adolescents sex by demanding more comprehensive
sex education and broader access to contraceptives for minors. They
assume that adolescents are unable to delay their sexual behaviour and
that a combination of information about and access to contraceptives
will effectively lead to protected sex, preventing any form of harm to
adolescents. Not only are these assumptions faulty, they tend to
disregard important factors that have been linked to reduce adolescent’s
sexual activity. A particularly noticeable omission is parental
influence. Therefore, this study chooses to test sexual abstinence in
adolescents using the duo of parental monitoring and religious influence
as correlates of sexual abstinence among in-school adolescents.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Sexual
activities has found it’s bearing among Nigeria in-school adolescents
and this has even polluted the academic environment by reduction in the
number of female adolescents who achieves in terms of education; due to
unintended pregnancies, contraction of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS
and others sexually transmitted diseases which will not allow them to
complete their education with their colleagues; eventually makes them
become a dropout.
The
issue of sexual abstinence which cannot be adopted by adolescent brought
a lot of adverse effect in the area of teenage pregnancy, contraction
of HIV/AIDS, abortion, leading to the destruction of the womb, maternal
death, due to unripe age of child delivery, rapid school drop-out due to
unplanned pregnancies, etc. All these have brought about low
self-esteem in the adolescent and a decline in the manpower of a nation.
Consequently, it brings about a huge disgrace to the family from where
they originate.
Moreso, peer influence most
times play a changing of orientation from acceptable to unacceptable;
role in adolescents in that, some parents have time to take care of
their wards but, these wards goes out there to come-in with an entire
different attitude. Most times these attitudes that are acquired are
kept in the covert at home but, overt at the midst of friends. So, the
role or impact of peers can also not be underestimated when considering
factors that causes sexual activities among in-school adolescents.
Campaign on sexual abstinence has been echoed by various religious
organizations while some adolescents are adapting and most of them are
remaining adamant in that, they have tasted sex and are not willing to
change therefore, government should equip schools with counsellors and
bring back the life planning foundation programmes that was eradicated
so as to compliment the effective work of counsellors at reducing sexual
activities and promoting sexual abstinence among in-school adolescent;
because it was observed that, the absence of these two factors also
contributed to increase in the sexual activities of Nigeria in-school
adolescents.
Sexuality in the period of adolescent is
poorly handled in that, in Nigeria, most parents sees sex education as
country to the teachings of the Koran and Bible therefore, they failed
to enlighten the adolescents. These adolescents when mixed with their
peers learn alot of things about sex and, they pick it up in the wrong
way; a situation which gas accounted for different unintended
pregnancies, different lives had been lost through abortion while
several innocent by ignorant souls had been lost through HIV/AIDS.
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