The Incidence Of Sexual Abuse And Unwanted Pregnancies Among Teenagers

The Incidence Of Sexual Abuse And Unwanted Pregnancies Among Teenagers

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of Study

Sexual abuse is defined as the involvement of dependent, developmentally immature children in sexual conditioning that they don’t completely comprehend and thus to which they’re unfit to give informed concurrence and/ or which violates the taboos of society.( McDowell,M. 2002).

According to FinkelhorD.( 2003). Sexual abuse is any abuse of a child for sexual pleasure or delectation. It has the implicit to intrude with a child’s normal, healthy development, both emotionally and physically. frequently, sexually victimized children witness severe emotional disturbances from their own passions of guilt and shame, as well as the passions which society imposes on them.

Sinal,S.H.( 2000), refers to child sexual abuse as any sexual act that occurs between as adult or immediate family member and a child and any non consensual sexual contact between a child and a peer.

At the extreme end of the diapason, sexual abuse includes sexual intercourse and/ or its diversions. These behaviours may be the final acts in a worsening pattern of sexual abuse. For this reason and because of their ruinous goods, exhibitionism, stroking and any other sexual contact with children are also considered sexually vituperative. Sexual abuse of children and teenagers is wide in nearly all societies.( Population Report, 1999).

This increase has posed a problem to the existent, society, government and nation laws generally consider this issue of sexual abuse as an important bone .

Encyclopedically, both boys and girls can be a victims of sexual abuse, utmost studies report that the frequence of abuse among girls is at least1.5 to 3 times that among boys and occasionally much further( Population Report, 1999).

In Nigeria, for illustration 30 of women and 21 of men reported geste constituting sexual abuse in nonage or nonage.

still, the abuse among boys may be under reported compared with abuse among girls. In this exploration the experimenter place more emphasizing on the sexual abuse affecting the ladies which leads to unwanted gravidity sexual abuse can lead to a wide variety of unhealthy consequences, including behavioural and cerebral problems, sexual dysfunction, relationship problems, low tone- regard, depression, studies of self-murder, alcohol and substance abuse and sexual threat taking. Ladies who are sexually abused in nonage also are at lesser threat of being physically and sexually abused as grown-ups.

For case, the prevalence of sexual abused in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono has come so rampant, this lead to the driving desire of the experimenter to probe on this imminence. In utmost communities of Ikot Ekpeyak every teenage is seen with at least a child or toddler moving along with mama on the way and this leads to colorful negative goods on the individualities.

The government despite their involvement in eradicating this imminence has succeeded in their little way. It’s veritably delicate for utmost people to talk about sexual abuse and indeed more delicate for society as a whole to admit that the sexual abuse of children of all periods including babies happens every day in the Nigeria. For illustration in Eket where we’ve Mobil Company and white men are working there and at their rest time they will go around youthful girls abusing them sexually and at the end it leads to unwanted gravidity.

The experimenter’s interest in this content radiated from particular hassle of so numerous prevalence of sexual abuse in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono community which leads to unwanted gravidity on the teenager girls.

Statement Of Problem

The increase sexual abuse on teenagers in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono community motivated the experimenter to study the frequentness. The situation leads to unwanted gravidity among teenagers. The increase of unwanted gravidity among teenagers in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono is a imminence not only to the community but to the state and the nation as a whole. The course of high prevalence of this condition is one of the reasons for the study.

Purpose Of Study

The purpose of this study is to find out the prevalence of sexual abuse and unwanted gravidity in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono Community.

Ideal Of The Study

The following objects were formulated to help the experimenter in this study

To identify the prevalence of sexual abuse on the teenagers in Ikot Ekpeyak Community.

To find out number of unwanted gravidity from January 2001 to December, 2005.

To identify the maternal profitable background with loftiest prevalence of sexual abuse and unwanted gestation.

To find out which position of education the parents of girls with the loftiest prevalence of sexual abuse and teenage gestation belong from January, 2001 to December2005.

Significance Of The Study

The study will help the government to borrow a public policy on adolescent health, the need for advocate commitment and collaboration with other agencies to insure effective perpetration.

This study will help the teenagers of Ikot Ekpeyak, Ikono to get enlightened and also cover themselves from sexual abuse.

To help develop socially responsible telecommunication programme that depicts indifferent and non violent connections between and women.

Eventually, the study is recommended to other pupil nursers who would want to use this exploration work for farther disquisition.

Exploration Question( S)/ Thesis

The experimenter asked four exploration question as follows

How numerous teenagers from Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono were sexually abused from January, 2001 – December, 2005.

How numerous cases of unwanted gravidity passed in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono from January 2001 to December 2005?

Do you suppose loftiest prevalence were set up among parent of low profitable status?

Was the loftiest prevalence set up among illiterate parents?

compass OF STUDY AND LIMITATION( S)

The compass of the exploration covers males and ladies within age type of 15- 49 times in Ikot Ekpeyak community.

Limitation

The following limitations were encountered during the course of the study.

Teenager ’S Response Was Poor

During the interview they refused to give correct answers to question asked while some refused to respond.

TIME/ FINANCE

The time limit for the study was short and there was no plutocrat to cover all the area anticipated in terms of transportation indeed with the limitations the results attained were satisfactory.

functional description OF TERMS

Prevalence The number of cases of sexual abuse and unwanted gravidity in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono from January 2001 to December, 2005.

Sexual Abuse Is any abuse of child or teenagers for sexual pleasure or delectation and without their concurrence.

UNWANTED gestation Is a generality that occurs to teenagers in Ikot Ekpeyak Ikono who isn’t ready for the up upkeep of the child.

TEENAGERS A youthful girl in her teen between the age of 9 – 18 times who isn’t yet married.