SOLUTION PATH

After the heated discussion I have had with my friends concerning my previous article: YOUNG AND PREGNANT, listening to what they had to say concerning the issue, I decided to call a shift from targeted intervention to a more far reaching strategy that builds girls human capital, helping them make decisions about their lives and offers them real opportunities so that motherhood is not seen as their only destiny. When a young teenager gets pregnant, it also means they are less likely to finish schooling making it even harder to get a job and break the cycle of poverty that many young mothers in the country face.                                                                                                                                     Reducing its rate to some extent reciprocates to a reduced poverty level which means we are reducing even more future unwanted pregnancies because poverty is a cause. If so, soon we will be living in a responsible world with responsible teens.

Young people have the right to live healthy lives. Providing them with honest age-appropriate comprehensive sexual health education is a key point in helping them take personal responsibility for their health and wellbeing. Providing young people with skills and tools to make healthy decisions on sex and relationships is far more effective than denying them information and simply telling them not to have sex.

Young people need sex education policies that respect their autonomy and includes all of the necessary information and not programs that deny them important and relevant information.         Maybe I am crazy, but you will agree with me that preaching abstinence all while may not be the only way.

I came to realize that one of the sure ways of reaching perfection is if you know poor. At times I feel that we lose some girls and boys that we could as well rescue. The fact that boys and girls are already involving themselves in immoral acts, especially this season does not justify them being termed outcast. We should learn to accept the fact and let them realize their actions. We should make them part of the community. Let us not be too tough as by  this we will even lose more.

My plea is to my dear teen brothers and sisters. Let us refrain from immoral behavior. Most of us stumble and fall dead because we did not make an effort over small stumbling blocks we meet in life. Let us not fall to bargain basement priced things.                                                                                    It is so worthwhile knowing that nobody is using you.                          

 My fellow girls; let us stand and face reality. It’s time we stop satisfying people’s biological feelings and soar to getting what is best for us. We are not some sort  of  doormat.                                                                

 I SAY NO! DO YOU?