It is almost a taboo for most Ugandan parents to discuss sexual matters with their children. this is because they feel they want them to keep pure until they are grown up and ready for marriage- then they can inculcate into them values regarding sexuality, relationships and love. then a relative is deployed to do a job that makes a girl aware of her own body and the various changes affecting her body all which are more or less meant to prepare a girl for a future successful marriage.
When a girl during the past century showed features of puberty before age seven, then she would be declared to be having precocious puberty. Today many girls are maturing much earlier compared to 20 years ago and unfortunately though matured physically, they are socially or psychologically immature.
This then can create a lot of emotional difficulties for the children and lots of worry for their parents. However, unlike precocious puberty which in a good number of cases, early maturation may be due to underlying medical problems, the general decrease in age of commencement of puberty largely has no medical problems causing it.
the children find themselves at a big loss regarding what is happening to their small bodies and so require the inevitable early explanation from their parents or family doctor to ward off unforeseeable problems. Unfortunately, the proverbial aunts who have since time immemorial been at the forefront of sex education for the maturing girls, have today lost bite since many may not be academically, financially or religiously at par with the parents. our cultures also having taken a heavy knock have not helped our girl children believe what they take to be archaic aunt’s stuff.
What’s puberty?Puberty, usually occurring during adolescence, is when children develop physically and emotionally into young men and women. In girls, the telltale signs of puberty include breast enlargement, pubic or underarm hair development, rapid height attainment (a growth
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