Consequences Of Premarital Sexual Activities Among Secondary School Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE]

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Introduction
    This chapter presents the discussion of the results of the study, the conclusion and recommendations for further studies. As indicated earlier, the purpose of this study was to findout the consequences of premarital sexual activities as expressed by secondary school students on the basis of gender, age, religion and type of school. In order to obtain concrete information, a questionnaire titled “Consequences of Premarital Sexual activities among secondary school student” was used to obtain the desired information. Four hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance.
Discussion
    The results of the study were discussed based on the distribution of respondents by gender, age, religion and type of school. The findings are based on each of the hypotheses formulated in chapter one. All the data collected were analyzed using t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).
    The findings of the study revealed that of all the total respondents, more females participated in the study than their male counterparts. Respondents within the age of 19 years and above are more than respondents between 15 – 18 years, while respondents within the age range of 11 – 14 years have the least number of participants. More Muslims participated in the study than respondents who are Christians, while African Traditional Religion has the least participants. Respondents from mixed schools participated in the study more than those in the single school.
    The rank order of respondents perception of the consequences of premarital sexual activities among secondary school students showed that item 6 with a mean score of 2.20 was ranked 1st and it stated that “in my view, premarital sexual activities leads to unwanted pregnancy”. While ranked 20th is item 1 with a mean score of 1.59 and it states that “in my view, premarital sexual activities leads to school dropout as a result of teenage pregnancy”.
    Hypothesis One stated that there is no significant difference in the consequences of premarital sexual activities as expressed by secondary school students on the basis of gender. The result of the t-test analysis revealed that the hypothesis was accepted. Thus, there is no significant difference in the consequences of premarital sexual activities as expressed by secondary school students on the basis of gender. This finds corroborates the findings of Cadelina (2004) and Garba (2010) which says that both male and female students engage in premarital sexual behaviour which thus exposes them to the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
    Hypothesis two stated that there is no significant difference in the consequences of premarital sexual activities as expressed by secondary school students on the basis of age. The result of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) revealed that the hypothesis was accepted. Thus, there is no significant difference in the consequences of premarital sexual activities as expressed by secondary school students on the basis of age. The findings corroborates findings of Garba (2010) which states that irrespective of their age, both young and old/matured students engage in premarital sexual activities which thus leads to stigmatization use to the diseases they are affected with and the early parenthood they find themselves in.