A marriage and family counsellor, Sharon Slater, has advised families in Nigeria to reject the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) agenda currently being promoted by the western world.
Slater, President Family Watch International of London, UK, gave the advice on Sunday at a news conference in Lagos saying, `It is one of the greatest assaults on the health and innocence of children.’’
The human rights advocate said, “Unlike traditional sex education, CSE promotes sexual promiscuity and presents high-risk sexual behaviours to children as if they are healthy and normal.
“It will also expose children to how they can obtain sexual pleasure in various ways.
“Ironically, CSE has failed to teach children the emotional, psychological and physical health risks of promiscuous sexual activity,’’ she said.
She advised Nigerian communities to promote family-based solutions that would encourage African values and culture among children through education rather than embracing CSE.
Slater, an international defender of marriage and family, said that children were the targets of the CSE.
“Parents need to monitor and carefully watch their children; what they read, watch and what their teachers teach them in their schools.
“CSE must be rejected by all because it teaches children and youths the bad aspects and perspectives of sexual activity.
Slater, who adopted three African children whose parents died of AIDS, said that the best way to address sexuality in the country was by educating the public on the negative effects of abortion.
Also, Dr Theresa Okafor, the President of Foundation For African Cultural Heritage (FACH), said that every family should protect their marriages and children for the sustainability and sanity of the larger society.
She said that when law was influenced by political correctness and fails to intersect with morality, the transcendent truth about man would be to disrespect marriage.
“It can undermine the future existence, health and happiness of the most vulnerable in our society namely, the preborn, children, the undiscerning youth and the aged.
Okafor urged the three tiers of government to support the grassroots effort to stop CSE by exposing the dangers it portends for the youths.
Okafor also advised government officials being pressurised at the United Nations and elsewhere on the need to accept CSE, to study the document for their understanding.
She said that the claim that adopting CSE programmes in schools would reduce teen-pregnancy and STD infections was based on a wrong premise.
Similarly, Prof. Moira Chimombo, the Executive Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Family Enrichment based in Malawi, advised governments to begin screening foreign NGOs coming to fund programmes in Africa to ensure that their intentions were genuine and positive.
She said that some of them had been coming to Africa with unsolicited funds to sponsor programmes aimed at promoting abortion, other sexually related issues and the use of contraceptives by the people.
She alleged that such foreign NGOs had been latching on the decentralization of governments on the continent to fund pro-choice programmes such as abortion.
Others are: the use of contraceptives, condoms and pills by young and old people through unsolicited grants and aids instead of pro-life programmes that could sustain families and marriages.
She said that some foreign NGOs had begun to distribute cell phones, ipads and tablets configured with pornography materials to school children, as young as 10 years old in parts of Malawi.
Chimombo said such NGOs also included materials on family planning schemes in such ipads and tablets for the children to watch.
These were meant to introduce the children to learn about pro-choice that include: sexual promiscuity, the use of pills, contraceptives, condoms and how girls could procure abortions at tender ages.
Chimombo advised parents and guidance to always censor whatever their children and wards watch from their android phones, tablets and ipads. (NAN)