Abstract
The study was meant to assess the effects of sexual liberty on educational development in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. The study was carried out with the aid of four (4) research questions, which were later subjected to percentage analysis. The research is a survey type of research with all adult and adolescent men and women of Yenagoa Local Government Area as the population. Data used for this study were based on responses from questionnaires designed for the different communities of the selected local Government Area. After administering and collecting data from the respondents, the results of the study showed that: such aspects of life as the traditional marriage system, life-span of marriage, teenage pregnancy, single parenthood among others, were significantly impacted upon. Based on these findings recommendations have been made to parents, traditional rulers, religious organizations as well as social/development unions to properly guide their members.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Development is said to be both a process as well as a product. The evolution of man as a rational being has exposed him to the need for development. But as a product, the achievement of total development has been an elusive target since creation. This is evidenced by the ceaseless struggle of man at all times with a view at reaching the target.
In modern complex societies, roles are given a due recognition with the knowledge that every role is important. Throughout the ages, human beings have sought for personal development as well as that of their communities. Consequently, man has continues to pick-up roles according to one’s interests, skills, knowledge, sex or age. Thus, man is seen as an indispensable agent of development, yet, education still remains the yardstick of development, indeed.
Though education nurtures the man who picks up his roles, the life-style of a people call for the general tone of development example, a given life-style may enable a man to solve both his personal and educational developmental problems or may create his personal and communal problems.
Real development is known to deal with only those qualitative functions of a human being. It is a complex process of integrating many structures and functions of an individual or a developmental, patterned and structured by man and his environment. Therefore, common sense demands that one should pick up a role that is socially acceptable, economically worth while and culturally uplifting so as to ensure a general development of one’s education, a venture which would bring absolute stability and orderliness to one’s educational development owing to its deep roots in the mutual recognition of world view and aspirations.