Abstract:
The aim of the study was to fmd out parents attitude and practices to sexual and
reproductive health education towards their adolescents. The prevalence of sexual
activity is very high among the adolescents with first sexual intercourse begirming in
early period of life. Such behaviors make the adolescents more vulnerable to sexually
transmitted infections, including the deadly disease lllVI AIDS, unintended pregnancies
leading to poor social economic status, illiteracy and unemployment. Lack of knowledge
and in some instance poor knowledge appears to be major problem among sexually
active adolescents. This situation is correlated to reproductive health risk adolescents are
exposed to. Sexual and reproductive health education is identified as one of the best
method of prevention of sexuality problems. Literature review shows the necessity of
including parents in education offered to adolescents. Curriculum design should be
participatory with input from the community and its young people. Two hundred and
fifty parents taking care of children aged between 10 to 19 years old were interviewed in
the study.
The researcher's findings revealed that parents actually favour programmes, which give
.sex education to their children though there was relationship between acceptance of
sexual and reproductive health and parent's age, religion, and level of education. The
fmdings also revealed that parents are the most preferred source of sexual and
reproductive health education to adolescents, whereas there are different ages where
sexual and reproductive health education can be introduced between male and female
adolescents.
