A cross-sectional survey was conducted to explore parents’ perspectives on sexuality education among 800 parents in Southwestern Nigeria. The data were collected via a validated questionnaire. The results showed that 82.9% of the parents supported sexuality education for both male and female children. The majority (82.3%) would have encouraged teachers to openly discuss sexuality education in the school with their children, while 17.8% opposed it. Parents expressed sexuality education to be handled by Health Education teachers (41.6%), Biology teachers (41.0%), and school guidance/counsellors (35.8%) than any other teachers in the schools. While gender ( = 8.577, p<.05) and location ( = 10.941, p<.05) significantly influenced parents’ perspectives of children’s sexual education, level of education did not. The study concludes that parents are increasingly embracing school-based sexuality education as appropriate for both male and female children but preferred it to be exclusively handled by relevant teachers within the school setting.
Shobayo, M. A., Ajayi, O. S. (2022). Parents and issues of sexuality education in the Nigerian secondary schools. Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality and Culture, 8(2), 57–67.
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