It is absurd how most African parents want their children to abstain from premarital sex, but won't tell them what sex really is.
If a child plays with fire, it's clear he doesn't know it burns.
The fact still remains that kids would go search for answers themselves. You know, curiosity is part of their psychological make-up.
However, the debilitating issue is that, they end up learning from the wrong sources or from friends, which is a bad idea.
Most of our fearfully and wonderfully made girls you see roaming the streets, misbehaving, lost their innocence before they matured. They were growing fast, and they flaunted the desire they felt and reveled in the attention they procured.
If she is oblivious of her sex organs, how would she know she was being molested or doing harm to herself?
Do you know that some girls think sex cures menstrual pains and aids in pregnancy difficulties?
Research shows that, yearly, close to a million infants are born to teenage mothers. This is the consequences of parental negligence.
Let us give your children sex education. Let's tell them all about the opposite sex. They need to know their bodies, what to expect as it develops.
Growth is a whole new stage of life for every child, and he/she should be equipped to face this.