Moulding children begins at birth

The Editor: In a society that only reacts to explosive situations, it is no wonder that it took Micki Grant handing out condoms to bring a national response to the critical  issue  of sex education. My hope is that all this talk does bring about change in our approach to sex education and our children.

Without  knowledge,  what  are we? Our ability to make informed choices can only  be  done  if we know what our choices are and what the results can or will  be.  Young  people  have  the ability to do this and need to be given proper  information  at  different  levels of their growth and development. This  must  also  be  complemented  with  the nurturing care by parents and guardians  of our children. The age-old values of caring, concern, respect, honesty and responsibility, hand in hand with education will result in more well-rounded  young  adults.  We cannot start this process at 16 and 17; it needs  to  start at birth and continue through the good times and bad. Once we have life in us we need to be responsible human beings. Let  us  work  together  to  achieve  this,  educators,  religious leaders, politicians,  parents,  guardians, the whole community, we seem to get lost in  the  power  plays  and forget “our children” who are suffering everyday because of our own arrogance.

Lisa Ghany
Port-of-Spain