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The Causes Of Premarital Sex Among Undergraduate Students
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Students lives in community, where they meet people from
different background and as such they are exposed to peer influence and a
desire to meet up with certain standard. All of this and more can lead
to premarital sex which culminates in various problem such as unwanted
pregnancy, exposure to sexually transmitted infections, poor academic
performance, school dropout and a host of others.
All of these
problems associated with premarital sex are preventable or at least the
effect on a large majority of students can be reduced to the barest
minimum. Accessing the causes can help us better understand ways to
prevent and checkmate the occurrence of premarital sex among
undergraduate students of the University of Benin.
Premarital sex,
pose a great threat to the future of the numerous naive students
admitted yearly into the university and also to the name of the school,
because if this act increase various consequences will inevitably follow
and it can grow into becoming a part of the culture among the students,
taking a cue from “arrowing†which means to throw abusive words on
passerby from the flyover just to have fun and make them feel
embarrassed. From this one can see that there is need to carefully
assess the causes of premarital sex among undergraduate students of the
University of Benin.
Research questions
In
a view to reaching a meaningful and an objective result/conclusion the
following questions were drawn to guide the research work.
1. Does peer group influence contribute to the occurrence of premarital sex?
2. Do financial gains influence premarital sex?
3. Does curiosity have any effect on premarital sex?
4. Do the media influence the occurrence of premarital sex?
Purpose of the study
The purpose of this research work is the assessment of the causes of
premarital sex among undergraduate students of the University of Benin.
The effect of premarital sex and possible suggestions for preventing or
curbing this menace.
This research work will help school authorities
to Identify measures to be put in place that will help to curb the
incidence of premarital sex among undergraduate students.
If this
study is properly utilized, it can help the school authority and the
public in general on better approach to teaching sex and sex education.
Significance of the study
The
conclusion reached and the result gotten from this research will
provide additional knowledge to past research findings already done on
premarital sex, provide the University of Benin with an arsenal of
knowledge about the causes of premarital sex in her institute and also
would be very beneficial to the numerous student admitted yearly to be
better equipped against the pressure and occurrence of premarital sex
among undergraduates.
This study will help to identify how peer
influence contributes to premarital sex, the influence of financial
gains on premarital sex, how curiosity or desire to experiment affects
student’s decisions to engage in sexual intercourse before marriage.
Finally
the results of this study can be used to strategize for better
alternatives on educating the students on sex, and how to go about the
unavoidable pressure associated with sex in the university community.
Scope of the study
This research study is focused on the
prestigious federal university of Benin located in Egor local government
of Edo State, Nigeria. The research shall be carried out using a
descriptive survey research design. This study is focus on the causes of
premarital sex among undergraduate students with the students of
university of Benin
as the main respondents.
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