Educate your children on reproductive health

Executive Secretary, PrimaryHealth care Development Board, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, has advised parents to take the primary responsibility of educating their children on reproductive health.Mohammed gave the advice in Abuja recently, saying that most parents in the country shied away from the responsibility, expecting teachers and health workers to do the job for them.The executive secretary, who spoke at an awareness orientation programme for youths in public schools, said it was imperative to pay special attention in teaching adolescents on reproductive health, to shield them from risky behaviours.He described adolescence as the period when human beings become most conscious of their sexuality and start to express the same.Mohammed attributed deviant and risky behaviours in adolescents, to the lack of appropriate knowledge and information on reproductive health, adding that parents ought to take full responsibility of imparting such knowledge.``Reproductive health is an important issue that adolescents need to understand for their healthy development, because if you look at it critically 42 to 79 per cent of adolescents have been reported to be sexually active.''Also speaking, Mrs Elizabeth Izukanne, Principal Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada, Abuja, said parents should arm their children with such knowledge to prevent the children from getting wrong information from others.She advised the participants to share the knowledge they had been taught with their peers at home and in school.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that about 40 public schools in the FCT attended the orientation programme.
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