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Too young to marry but old enough to have sex?

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  • TRUTH STANDS 7 years ago

    Promoting immorality to the west and their religion

  • VICTOR CARRILLACE OFINAM-ANTWI 7 years ago

    ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT THE LEGAL AGE FOR A GIRL TO HAVE SEX OR MARRY IS MERE HOT AIR. WHY DO UNDERAGE CHILDREN HAVE SEX THAT EARLY? NO ONE IS ADDRESSING THAT. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT SOCIAL STRUCTURES; EITHER THERE ARE EDUCATIONAL ...
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  • TRUTH STANDS 7 years ago

    Promoting immorality to suite the west and their religion

  • VICTOR CARRILLACE OFINAM-ANTWI 7 years ago

    "What the country needs is to ...make available contraceptives so that teenagers can have greater control over their sexuality." VERY, VERY, VERY DANGEROUS ADVICE OF A LOSER. WHY NOT SAY GIVE THEM CUSTOM-MADE, FRIENDLY-LOOKI ...
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  • Nana 7 years ago

    True lies. 1/4 of 18 years Ghanaians get married before that age. False.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Human beings are complex animal. I was twelve years old when a girl of eight years in the village requested me to follow her and see something in an uncompleted building. When we entered the building she remove the red materi ...
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  • @ kwame 7 years ago

    Kwame, is it some sort of essay or what? Who were you trying to impress with all this your grammar all over the place and whatever I don't even know you were writing about? Oh boy!!! sigh

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    We must say this is one of the more thoughtful, professionally composed, work products from any Ministry we've read in a long time.

    We thank you "The Child Marriage Unit, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protectio ...
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  • Yaw Yeboah 7 years ago

    Yes, Prof Lungu, I fully agree with your comments.

  • Yahaya Fatawu 7 years ago

    This article is very educative
    The ministry should organise programmes on radio and televisions to educate ghanaians more.

  • dotse 7 years ago

    What kind of statistics is that. Teenage pregnacy or child birth at teen age cannot be construe as marriage. I disagree. If u talk about teenage pregnancy, fine

  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Marriage and sex are two different things. Setting a minimum age for sex is one thing but whether you are matured enough to marry is another. In England you are old enough to join the army at 16 but you can't drink before 18. ...
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  • inusah 7 years ago

    When someone gives birth doesn't mean that she is married. Many of girls nowadays create all this problems n d only solution is marriage.when u realize that some daughter or sun is has developed so much interest in sex u Marr ...
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  • Kingsley Addo 7 years ago

    The constitution is only promoting immorality in the country, why should a sixteen year old child be sexually active??
    sex is not a game we play for excitement, rather it's meant having children. To me it should be totally i ...
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  • Omanbapa 7 years ago

    Thanks for your time to survey on girls who gets married before before they are 18.

    And how many white girls in Europe begin to have sex before they forteen and how many of them are lucky enough to get married before t ...
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  • Emmanuel 7 years ago

    l want to stay with u and everytin will ok for.

  • Emmanuel 7 years ago

    you have to play very well and gud will guide u