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Participants at a one day symposium in Akrofuom District in the Ashanti Region have called on parents to take up the responsibility of parenting seriously if teenage pregnancy can be reduced in the district.
Speaker after speaker echoed the importance of parenting as the first avenue for children to be imparted with values and knowledge that is crucial to the fight against teenage pregnancy and drug abuses in the district .
Most speakers lamented the spate at which most parents have reneged on their responsibilities and have laid all their shortfalls in parenting at the doorsteps of other institutions to train their children for them.
The symposium organised by the Akrofuom Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), brought together all the stakeholders in the district who have interest in the subject matter.
Addressing the participants, the District Director for NCCE, Mr. Ali Kassim, stated that in the discharge of their duties, they realised that the cases of teenage pregnancy and drug abuse was in ascendancy in the district as confirmed by a report issued about three years ago, which revealed the Akrofuom District as tops on the list of teenage pregnancy cases in the country .
He added that though the directorate has liaised with other institutions in the past in addressing the menace, it was imperative that new strategies were devised and used to eradicate the menace or bring it to the barest minimum since it continues to be a critical issue in the district.
Participants also attributed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and drug abuse to peer pressure, social media, lack of enforcement of laws and the introduction of foreign culture on our airways through telenovelas.
The chairman of the occasion, Mr. Samuel Yaw Obubah commended the directorate for a successful program and urged that the participants will spread the message across for the canker in the district to be reduced to the the barest minimum.
