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A Magistrate's  Court ,  sitting It is as if many adults do not have heads to think with. It seems they were fools right from birth. Set of imbeciles, so daft. You know, It is becoming too rampant as we read on dailies and watch on most of these social media, how adults molest and harass children, many of which are suppose to be their children’s age mates. For instance, a magistrate's court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Thursday, 13th of October, 2011, sentenced one Goodday Owolo (20) to three years imprisonment  for sexually assaulting an eight - year - old girl after pleading guilty to the charge. The prosecutor, Joseph Egbosereme, stated that the accused person committed the crime on September 25 th , 2011, at No 25, Lagos Street, Benin City. Rachel Ogbevoen, the presiding officer at the court, observed that cases of adults sexually “abusing little children is becoming rampant in many societies, hence it is a menace which needs to ...

Hence, the urgent need for Sex Education. It was initially thought that parents and teachers will not welcome the idea. But within me, I felt like why won't they. They surely should, simply because they would be looking for people who will take care of their wards on their behaves. Parents find it difficult to discuss sex or even make a mention of some parts of the body with their children and wards. But I can belt it with parents that it is safer when they teach their children themselves than for people who might have hidden agendas to help them out. Back in the days, brothers and sisters sometime share beds or mats(as the case may be); parents have time for their children espcially the female child. This so in Africa because in most cases, male children go to farm with their fathers. So, mothers have time for their female children. They know when their children starts menstruating, when they begin to have disturbances from peers. To make the whole thing worse, industria...

There are two important roles a mother’s breast milk plays in the growth of a child. It does not only enable the child grow physically, it makes the child grow mentally as well. Medical studies have shown that the first one year of breast feeding is for growth and if you extend it to the next year, it is for brain development. It is recommended that where it is possible, a baby should be breastfed for 18 months. That is why World Health Organisation, W.H.O., recommended six months of exclusive breast-feeding. According to Mr. Ralph S. Olanrewaju, a medical doctor at the Moth er and Child Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, “Breast-feeding is the baby’s best food and the only one that is tailor-made for the child. It also has many advantages.” According to him, “It is the first immunization for the baby, especially the first burst of milk that flows out of the mother’s breast.” Breast milk is also considered the living milk that contains glucose and other essential minerals in the ri...