Poor housing contributing to immorality – Doctor
Dr Charles Kiggundu addressing the MPs from the Parliamentary forum on the Youth Affairs in Kampala on Friday. Photo by Anthony Wesaka
What you need to know:
- It's from the aforementioned background that MPs from the Parliamentary Youth Forum and National Youth Council, promised to highlight these issues of reproductive health rights of the young people by lobbying from President Museveni and his wife, gender ministry, health ministry and other relevant stakeholders.
- The legislators said Parliament can be utilised to protect and safe guard reproductive health rights of young people if Uganda is to score high on sexual reproductive health rights of the young people.
KAMPALA. Poor housing has greatly contributed to the increased immorality in the country especially among the children as opposed to belief that it is pornography, a senior Mulago hospital gynecologist has said.
Dr Charles Kiggundu explained that given the common scenarios where parents share one-roomed house with their children, the children are prone to hearing their parents have sex.
Dr Kiggundu was presenting a paper to MPs from the Youth Forum aimed at advancing sexual reproductive health rights of the young people organized by Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD).
"It's not the Western media or pornography that is making our children become immoral but the poor housing where children sleep under the beds of their parents and start listening to them while they have sex. This has immensely contributed to immorality among the children," Dr Kiggundu said on Friday in Kampala.
He added: "What do you expect to happen in a room that is separated by a mere curtain. Sometimes in order not to have the children listen to their love matters, the parents chase them out for a while but this makes them suspect their parents of having sex."
Kumi Municipality MP, Mr Silas Aogon, who was among the host of MPs attending the youth forum, partly agreed with the submissions of Dr Kiggundu.
“The immorality we see now days is a combination of a number of factors with poor housing as suggested by the doctor being one of them." MP Aogon said.
As a way forward, Anna Adeke Ebaju, the National Female Youth MP, promised that as MPs, they will pass a piece of legislation about sexual reproductive health rights to assist the youth make right decisions regarding sexuality.
A wide range of sexual reproductive health rights issues such as family planning, sexuality education, teenage pregnancies, and unsafe abortion affect millions of people in the Sub Saharan Africa, causing about 29,000 deaths annually.
Young people of all social standings are affected by regressive policy and legal framework due to policies that are reflective of cultural and religious morals and values without sufficient attention given evidence that speaks to sexual reproductive health rights of the young people.
It's from the aforementioned background that MPs from the Parliamentary Youth Forum and National Youth Council, promised to highlight these issues of reproductive health rights of the young people by lobbying from President Museveni and his wife, gender ministry, health ministry and other relevant stakeholders.
The legislators said Parliament can be utilised to protect and safe guard reproductive health rights of young people if Uganda is to score high on sexual reproductive health rights of the young people.
