Society Must Create Enabling Environment for Youth To Thrive
Ever seen that advertisement of a young man stranded at the shop asking for packets of biscuit because he couldn’t stand the shame of buying a condom in a crowded shop? He then leaves the shop after a while only to find the girl gone. Do you think the man will shop for a condom next time??
How comfortable are young people accessing sexual and reproductive health services, including just buying condoms? Isn’t it interesting that a society that despises teenage mothers and frowns upon abortions, judges young people that access these services?
What’s the consistency in that??
Wouldn’t an enabling environment for use of contraceptives tackle most of the challenges facing our young people?
The society is so judgmental when it comes to teenage affairs. You cannot talk about your sexual needs and problems to the society. They will actually see you as a bad person, a pervert and a spoilt brat who wants to spoil others.
A boy and a girl cannot be seen together in this society. All that people think is that whenever a boy is with a girl all they can afford to talk about is sex se sex. They punish them in the name of correcting them while in the real sense they are marking things worse. This only forces these teenagers to do things behind their back.
Where is the stand? Youths caught up in this confusion end up making wrong decision hence increase in STDs, abortion and unwanted pregnancies.
The society must create an enabling environment where young people thrive and are not inhibited.
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