Charleys:
What is the first topic to teach your child about sex? Let's say in the first day what do you tell them?

I want to learn.

Let's hear from you OP?

blackboy:
Your 6% statistics compared to 42% is not because of parents in USA talking about sex but enlightenment. Poverty has played a major role in the high rate of teen pregnancy.
In my early teens I schooled in the west came back to Nigeria in my teens. My parents neither sat me down to talk about sex but let me know it was no no but for marriage nor am I aware any of my friends. Dont blame your parents. The child wey want sex go find am. The child wey no listen to im parents go get belle or do abortion be it USA or naija

pharrell8:
Its also been taught in schools e.g puberty and stuffs like unwanted pregnancy and diseases.. just like dey say pikin wey wan spoil go spoil.

pharrell8:
Its also been taught in schools e.g puberty and stuffs like unwanted pregnancy and diseases.. just like dey say pikin wey wan spoil go spoil.

bdchange:
Our parents really messed up when it comes to sexual education. They nearly made you believe babies come from heaven not from sex..lolz..I had a young girl of 16yrs and very close to me.she came to me one day and said she has sensitive issue to discuss with me. Then i gave her go ahead.she said boys are disturbing her and she wants to know if she can have bf now.that her classmates have started having bf. Then I asked her first that she should have discussed this issue with her mother first that she will explain better to her. She said nooooo, that she can't.she said her mother will not understand her. I was sad for her for not having that connection with her mother. Well i gave her my advice and hope she listens. As long as our parents fail in their responsibility to educate their children about sex then teenage pregnancy will continue to grow higher.

blackboy:
Your 6% statistics compared to 42% is not because of parents in USA talking about sex but enlightenment. Poverty has played a major role in the high rate of teen pregnancy.
In my early teens I schooled in the west came back to Nigeria in my teens. My parents neither sat me down to talk about sex but let me know it was no no but for marriage nor am I aware any of my friends. Dont blame your parents. The child wey want sex go find am. The child wey no listen to im parents go get belle or do abortion be it USA or naija

Magnoliaa:



Nope. This isn't true. Sure, one's personality plays a role in how one grow up to be, but nurture/environment does, too.

You really can't tell how a child will grow or who they'll become looking at just their present location/situation. There's a possibility the child will grow up different if they'd been raised in a different country, family, place.

pharrell8:

Do u know u might be living in a bad environment and still be good... there re so many pple would lived d ghetto life but came out good cos dey believed so..

Abetterperson:



I agree that poverty is one reason the numbers are high, but this mentally alot of Nigerians have that "pikin where one spoil go spoil". if Nigeria parents enlighten their wards instead of their fellow teens it wouldn't be so. since teens can't talk to their parents about sex they turn to their teens who still don't know anything. please talk to your child that's all I ask

Abetterperson:
just be real

make your child to understand that what they are going through is normal and you also gone through it. we teens try our hardest not to ever bring up sex when having conversations with our parents. I say just be real and don't bring that "When I was your age, my books where my friend" talk, you do that, you will lose the attention of your child