Just saying ‘no’ prevents teenage pregnancy the way ‘Have a nice day’ cures chronic depression. ~ Faye Wattleton ~ [Source]

Explaining the birds and bees to young kids who ask the age-old question, “Mummy, where did I come from?” will put any adult into a blushing machine. Telling them that you ‘got’ them from the hospital may result in teenage pregnancies that you didn’t want them to in the first place.

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Telling them about the father ‘placing a seed’ in mother doesn’t cut it as they would wonder how a father is able to place a seed in the first place. Teaching children about sex can bring about different methods that adults want to convey to the kids. Some prefer to tell them directly while others prefer to do it subtly.

Yet others want to sterilise teenage girls temporarily. Having babies at the tender age of 18 or 19 is tough as one doesn’t have a job to feed the baby and sometimes, babies. While one may be able to enjoy a less slogging working pace when one reaches 30 while others are slogging it out for their children, what does this teach the child about sex?

You don’t want to be the parents of this girl who wants a baby so desperately at the age of 15 and fighting to have one despite the mother’s pleas. She went on to have multiple sexual intercourses with different boys in order to have her baby to take care of.

Besides teaching children about sex, they should know about sexually transmitted diseases. It is sad when they know the diseases are out there but expect themselves to get it instead of saving themselves from the diseases.

It is even worse when one’s father wants to be a grandfather and risks another woman’s health to get AIDS in order to have a grandchild. The risk of the child being HIV positive is also there.

Teaching children about sex isn’t going to be an easy path but if it helps to form the path to proper family planning and prevent themselves from being infected, why not?

What are the ways you have taught your children about sex?

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