Sex
education is the study about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual
intercourse and other aspects of sexual behaviour (Wikipedia, 2012). Sex
education can be best described as character education. It consists of
instruction to develop understanding of the physical, emotional,
social-economic and psychological phases of human relations as they are
affected by male ad female relationship (Asha, 2007). It is pertinent to
understand that the history of sexuality education dated back to our ancestors,
who laid must emphasis on the care self and the act of procreation, emerging
population and health concerns have led to the re-thinking and
re-identification of the relationship between sexuality and human activity and
behaviour.
The
appearent rejection of sexual education by some concerned groups was echoed in
this day publication of Wednesday,
12 January, 2005 under the caption “group condemns sex education in
Lagos schools”
and in the Muslims submission at the on-going national political conference, Abuja where the chairman
of Jamatu-Was-Ril-Islam condemned in strong terms government’s support for the
sexuality education programme. In his words, he said “we need religious
education but they gave us sexuality education” channels news broadcast at 10’0clock
March 3, 2005.
SIECUS
(2008), simply defined sex education as an act of learning how to conform to a
certain art of living by being able to reason, examine and monitor oneself in
clearly defined terms. It implies that man’s sexuality is integrated into his
total life development as a healthy entity and as a source of creative energy. Infect,
sex education is a term used to describe human sexuality which means that it
emphasizes education about all aspects of sexuality and sex orientation, sexual
pressure, valves, decision-making, communication, dating, relationships,
sexuality transmitted diseases (STDs) and how to avoid them and birth, control
methods. From the definitation no wonder Martin Luther broke away from St. Augustine’s sexual
prohibition who felt that sex discussion was sinful and decided to live in celibacy.
Eventually
the merit valve and strength of sexuality education were acknowledge at the
highest level of governance at the national level in the ministry of education.
The Nigerian government approved the national curriculum for comprehensive
sexuality education in Nigeria
way back in August 2001. However, retrogressive and conservative groups frowned
at the concept of sexuality and the policy was bastardized to eliminate the use
of the term sexuality an action based on the fear of providing information that
would address the core of patriarchal exploitation of women. From the
definitions above, it is understood that most mothers in Ohaozara Local Government
Area left their children at junior secondary school level that makes it very
poor at family level because mothers will continue living their children at
junior secondary school level to get their first information outside home or
among their peer groups.
In
the light of the above, the people of Ohaozara Local Government Area are not left
out. As an educationally advantaged area in Ebonyi state, tremendous social
changes have relatively occurred, since more children are sent to school to acquire
formal education for all round development of individual pupils or students in
character with Sexuality Education being inclusive to make a better society. To
this effect, the home is expected to assist the school in it’s efforts to
improve the quality of life of the children and to foster personality in
consonance with Martin Luther’s philosophy about Sexuality Education.
Moreover,
the high rate of teenage pregnancy and numerous cases of early vesico vaginal,
childbirth and even cases of STDs is an evidence to prove that the mothers lock
the knowledge on the teaching of Sex Education at Junior Secondary School Level
in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. However, in order to put a
stop to these problems, Sex Education should be given to the children from the
family level. Mothers can make it a point of duty to give their children the
right education on sex related issues before it could be introduced or
mentioned to them outside or else where (Oluremi, 2012). The mothers have
failed to play their role in that most children get their first information
about sex from their peer groups and of course wrongly because their mothers
failed to teach them Sex Education from home in Ohaozara Local Government Area
of Ebonyi State. This goes a long way to ruin the lives of some young boys and
girls because the relationship of these young boys and girls to their mothers
is very poor as far as Sex Education is concerned.
Consequently
such children abuse sexuality and ruin their lives for ever and some may have
their reproductive organs destroyed through illegal abortion, some may contact
sexually transmitted disease (STDs) and HIV/AIDS, some will fall victim of
vesico vaginal fistula (V.V.F) or even die, all in the name of ignorance and
these are the reasons why good percentage of unwanted pregnancies, illegal
abortions, high mortality rates of our teenage girls abound in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Even
with our mothers, they also fall victim to all these problems due to they don’t
have the perception or knowledge of the vital facts like not knowing how well
to plan their families or involving themselves in extra-marital sex are due to
lock of adequate information or knowledge or lack of proper education about
one’s sexuality (Oluremi, 2002). The relationship of children to their mothers
play a vital role. There are communication gap between children and their
mothers or caregiver in Sex Education. It is important to remember that
teaching young ones about sex, it helps to protect them from nisnwanyi and
against ‘Ime mkpuke’ in Ohaozara language.
In
doing this, the mothers should stress more on abstinence from pre-marital sex
until the children gets married. This issues of Sex Education is very important
topic in which people have very strong opinion, often as well as their own
early experience. However mother’s participation is welcome in this important
issue.
In
respect of the above account, there is need for urgent and careful look mother’s
participation in sex education of their children in Ohaozara Local Government
Area of Ebonyi State.
Sexuality
creates many problems in the society. Something is really going wrong about the
perception of mothers on the teaching of sex education in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State. Mothers leave their duty of educating their
young boys and girls. The problem of early marriage among teenagers, high rate
of pregnancy and the problem of the home in teaching Sex Education. The morbid
fear of the term sexual plus the current wave of advocacy called “zip-up”
clearly denies young people their freedom of information and expression, and
impairs their access to health services.
Some
of these children dropped out in the Junior Secondary Schools Level as a result
of poverty and that is why there are a lot of applicants in the area, their
most occupations of framing while some of the boys who are very lazy join bad
gangs and begin to cause nuisance in the community just because they cannot
carter for. One can imagine a teenage boy of about 17 years raping a girl of
about 12 years old in rural area of Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State
rending the child almost lifeless.
This
happened in one of the village called Ogwu at “Uburu” in Ohaozara Local
Government Area take closer look at the harmful and deadly effect of these
problem government, mothers and religious groups should take serious action
about this by providing strong and stealy remedies and not only fighting the
risky behaviour like the outcome of HIV/AIDS and other STDs but providing sex
education to the children and teenagers which will rightly direct their ideas
about sexuality and correct those who had already been miss-informed before
they start wrong practices.
As
emphasized by (Nwosu, 2001), who started that consistent information give
better result especially who it has to do with education or changing peoples
unhealthy attitude to describe one. Therefore, this study aims at identifying
the effective and scientific way of changing the negative attitude of parents
towards teaching of Sexuality Education to students of Junior Secndary Schools in
Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi state.
The general objective of this study is to
discover the perception of mothers on the teaching of sex education at junior
secondary schools in Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi State.
Specific of
objectives of this study are to:
1.
To identify the perception of mothers about the teaching
of Sex Education in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
2.
To find out how adequate is the curriculum of Sex Education
to hosting community.
3.
To examine the method of teaching Sex Education in
Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
4.
To determine the strategies to improve the teaching of sex
education.
The finding of this research work will
be of great importance to mothers, teenagers, governments, families, community
and society.
The study is
considered significant as it will direct and current the attitudes of mothers
toward teaching of Sex Education at Junior Secondary Schools Level in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State. It will also highlight the degree of knowledge
and practice of Sex Education in the family level. Expose the factors that
contribute to their ignorance in Sex Education in Ohaozara Local Government
Area of Ebonyi State.
The findings and recommendations of this
study will be beneficial to both mothers and teenagers in so many rural areas
especially in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State in order to
correct their misconception about Sex Education. The study will also help the
mothers, religious group and other policy maker in health education sector to
find out the area they can assist to minimize the problem faced by our mothers
and teenagers in most villages especially in Ohaozara Local Government Area of
Ebonyi State on sex related issues. The ministry of education and youth
development will benefit from the finding to the youths in expressing their
sexual feelings in ways that are not harmful. The study will also help the
Nigerian education system succeed in helping the students understand the
implications of their sexuality upon which their social and sexual will be at
the micro level. The study is consisted significance lent as the direct and
corrects the perception of mothers towards teaching of Sex Education in
Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Finally, the ministry of education and
youth development will equally benefits from this as it will help them in
determining of Sexuality Education both at state and federal level.
The
scope of this study is focused on assessing the perception of mothers on the
teaching of Sex Education at junior secondary schools level in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State. In the concent scope, the study investigates
how the perception of mothers about the teaching of Sex Education in Ohaozara,
how adequate is the curriculum of Sex Education to hosting community, examine
the method of teaching of Sex Education in Ohaozara Local Government Area of
Ebonyi State, and to improve the teaching of Sex Education in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State.
This
study was limited to only mother and teenagers in Ohaozara Local Government
Area of Ebonyi State.
In order to solve the above enumerated
problem research questions:
1.
What is the perception of mothers about the teaching of Sex
Education?
2.
How adequate is the curriculum of Sex Education to the
host community?
3.
What are the methods of Sex Education in Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State?
4.
What strategies could be used in improving the teaching of
Sex Education in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State?
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