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How modern parenting is turning our children into creatures of lust

Teenage pregnancies are now a national crisis. It took the national exams season for Kenyans to realise that we now have a major crisis in our hands. Most of us have been burrowing our heads in the sand hoping that this issue will magically disappear while all along we might even have been contributing to the problem.

Let us start off with the simple fact that we like to ignore - our children, and particularly the girls are becoming women way faster and way earlier than they used to in the past. We all know that most of us like to deal with the ghosts from our upbringing by splurging on our children. Since most of us grew up in households where goodies such as chocolate, pizza, soda were rarely sighted, we have decided that these foods will become staples in our houses.

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