The contraceptive pill has for a long time been known to help women in planning their families.
The pill enables women to have manageable families and also space them to avoid child birth related complications.
I agree that times have changed and so have people. But sadly our children are heading in the wrong direction and treading a dangerous road in terms of their own health.
Teenage girls are more than ever engaging in unprotected sex either knowingly or unknowingly with different kinds of people regardless of the risk they are exposing themselves into.
Not that they are unware but they always think they are very smart and will never miss solutions to any problems no matter what kind.
A few years ago, the country was shocked after a research revealed that girls are nowadays much afraid of getting pregnant than contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/Aids.
Misuse of drugs should actually be termed as juvenile delinquent but unfortunately in our society it has become a norm.
Is it parents who are failing on their part in their daughters up bringing or is it that the biology teachers are insisting on “practicals during sexual reproductive lessons?”
All said and done, one thing is for sure, someone is failing somewhere while others are sleeping and snoring on their jobs.
Medical practitioners should henceforth stop selling contraceptives and worse still, e-pills to teenage girls who find it easier to buy them over the counter.
A pharmacist should take a few minutes of his/her time to advise the young negligent girl on the consequences of taking the drugs she is about to buy instead of dishing them out to her and smiling to have pocketed some few cents for what he or she consciously knows is wrong and might cause a lifetime disaster to the desperate teenager who might be oblivious of what the future holds.
Parents and teachers alike should cease every opportunity to talk to both the teenage boys and girls on the consequences of engaging in early and unprotected sex, and tell our girls point blank of the dangers they are exposing themselves to when they indulge in such perilous acts.
Speaking out will be the only solution to securing the future of our young generation where we won’t see many ladies crying of not being able to conceive and even trying to visit witch doctors who will never give solutions to their problems rather than milking their cash and leave them crying to death.