Indiscriminate sexual activities outside marriage can unduly lead to population explosion, as children born under such circumstances are mostly unwanted.
Assistant Director, Laboratory Science in the Department of Health Planning Research and Statistics, Dr. Tony Udoh, who represented the Federal Ministry of Health, said family planning is meant to curtail population through the control of birth rate. “Giving them information is not a bad thing, if we fail to give them information then we allow different media to give them the information. I think we should encourage it and it is a right to afford our children and at least we know that those that are informed would not make the wrong decisions.”
“Today, in Nigeria and other African countries, stories abound of eight year old girl being molested even two year old. That is how badly and depraved our society has become and so we need to face this head on, if we want to play the ostrich we would be deceiving ourselves. Parents must face the reality and not to continue to look at their children as being innocent of sexual activities. At home you should sit them down and have the right conversation and teach them all they have to know.