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PARENT –CHILD COMMUNICATION ON SEXUALITY AND FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN PORT HARCOURT MET

PARENT –CHILD COMMUNICATION ON SEXUALITY AND FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN PORT HARCOURT METROPOLIS. BY. MRS. MFREKEMFON P. INYANG,

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PARENT –CHILD COMMUNICATION ON SEXUALITY AND FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN PORT HARCOURT MET

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  1. PARENT –CHILD COMMUNICATION ON SEXUALITY AND FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS’ SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN PORT HARCOURT METROPOLIS.

  2. BY MRS. MFREKEMFON P. INYANG, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN KINETICS AND HEALTH EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA. AND PROFESSOR ADDISON M. WOKOCHA, RIVERS STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, PORT HARCOURT-RIVERS STATE.

  3. BACKGROUND • Port Harcourt metropolis of the Niger Delta region is the nerve centre of all economic, social and political activities. • It is the nerve centre of oil and oil related business in the country. • This tends to attract more immigrants into the city. • The population is a young one with less than half of the population being below the age of fifteen. • Studies have shown that there is increasing sexual activities among adolescents with higher incidences among the urban dwellers.

  4. BACKGROUND • It is the responsibility of the parents to assist their children in making safe and informed sexual decisions by giving them clear and correct information on sexual matters. • Numerous studies have also shown that the most influential role models for a child are their parents. • The culture of silence subjects the teenagers into getting and acting on wrong information. • Most parents are silent for fear that sexual discussion will provoke sexual experimentation by the children.

  5. OBJECTIVES • To provide data on parent-child communication on sexuality in Port Harcourt Metropolis. • To increase parents’ awareness that they are the primary sexual educators to their children. • To come up with practical ways that parents can communicate sexuality with their children.

  6. METHODOLOGY • Simple random sampling technique was used in selecting ten schools. • One thousand respondents were proportionally selected from the schools. • A self structured and adapted questionnaire was used in eliciting quantitative information from the respondents. • Focus group discussion was used in collecting qualitative data.

  7. FINDINGS • Table 2:Respondents’ responses on discussion of sexuality with parents.

  8. FINDINGS • Table2: Respondents responses on sexual activity

  9. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 1 • Out of a total respondents of 1000(100%), 61(6.1%) only had ever discussed sexuality issues with the parents. • Respondents that never discussed sexuality issues with the parents were 913(91.3). This was in line with the findings of several other studies that posited that there has always been a communication gap between the parents and their teenage children on sexuality issues due to the culture of silence (Ladipo 1993,NGTF1996,FMOH and WHO 1999,Moronkola and Wriso 2000, WHO 2004).

  10. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 2 • Study revealed that 782(78.2%) out of 1000(100%) respondents studied had engaged already in premarital sexual relationship. • This is not surprising because of the insignificant number of respondents that had ever discussed sexuality issues with the parents. • This also tallies with the assertion that, it is the responsibility of the parents to assist their children in making safe and informed sexual decisions by giving them clear and correct information on sexual matters (WHO,2004).

  11. QUALITATIVE DATA (FGD) Respondents had the following to say on why parents find it uneasy to discuss sexuality issues with their children: • Fear of experimentation/fear of children reacting negatively towards them. • They feel the children are too young to know/some pose to be more knowledgeable than the parents. • Since their parents did not tell them hence they should not tell their own children. • Most parents do not have time for their children but only conscious of their business. • No closeness between adolescents and parents.

  12. QUALITATIVE DATA (FGD) • Some parents keep malice with their children. No concern over their children • Most parents do not love their children. • Most parents feel it is not proper • Illiteracy/poor background • Ignorance of what is going on. • Some think it is the responsibility of the school. • Some give but very shallow incapable of producing any positive effect. • Since most teenagers do not listen to their parents thus they tend to lose interest in their children, some even fight with their parents. • Most children are disrespectful towards their parents thus they fear them. • They cannot because of the negative example they have shown to their children.

  13. CONCLUSION • Absence and poor parent-child communication on sexuality issues is implicated in adolescents’ premarital sexual activity in Port Harcourt metropolis. It is therefore necessary to increase parents’ awareness that they are the primary sexuality educators to their children.

  14. RECOMMENDATION 1 • Parents should be educated to see themselves as primary sexuality educators to their children and not the schools. • This education should be tailored towards dissolving the culture of silence while inculcating boldness and confidence and also removing possible hindrances /doubts to communicating sexuality issues with their children.

  15. RECOMMENDATION 2 • Parents should teach adolescents, life’s skills that will develop skills in them to adopt positive behaviours that will enable them deal effectively with the challenges of everyday life. Such skills include communication, refusal skills, assertiveness, decision making, critical thinking and self evaluation.

  16. RECOMMENDATION 3 • Health educators and non governmental organizations should educate parents through seminars and workshops on how to relate with their children to improve parent child communication, show love and be good role models, talk to their children’s highest self, provide, and above all convince them of their love so that they will have no reason to look for love else where.

  17. THANK YOU! for your ATTENTION.

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