Take greater responsibility and raise upstanding children

I have really tried to avoid the Project X conversation. Having written several pieces about the teenage moral crisis, I however feel it would be remiss of me not to put forward my thoughts on the issue. Firstly, this issue is way beyond an event; it is about a moral crisis that is destroying our society. What shocked me about the Project X issue was not the project itself, I was shocked by the parents’ shock. I wondered where these parents, who are acting so scandalised, live. How could they even imagine that CS Joseph Nkaissery banning this “project” was some victory, that we were now back to moral safety?

The teen sex and drug crises has been with us for a long while and the only new thing is that it is advertising itself with such brazen audaciousness. I tell people that the reality of the crisis was brought to me one Sunday morning when I sat reading my morning paper outside a chemist’s shop. As I sat in my car, I noted a succession of skimpily, but expensively dressed young girls, walking in and out of the shop. After some time, curiosity got the better of me and I went and inquired of the pharmacist what the young ones were buying. That’s when I learnt of “Postinor” which I now know is the most popular of the “morning after” emergency contraceptives. My shock was threefold. First was the age of the girls. I can bet none of these tots were above 16. Secondly, their large numbers. Thirdly I was alarmed that these girls had no fear of Aids or the numerous life long STDs that arise from unprotected sexual behaviour. Clearly, if you were imbibing Postinor, you had engaged in unprotected sex!