Mrs. Doris Kwakye, the wife of Reverend Minister Kwakye has urged the youth to avoid engaging in sex before marriage.
Mrs. Doris Kwakye who is successfully married for 32 years now was sharing her experience on TV3’s New Day on February 14, 2024.
She urged the younger generation to commit their partners into the Lord’s hand before they tie the knot and avoid “testing the waters.”
“As a Christian and with my background, I will not encourage pre-marital sex because you need to wait for the Lord to prepare you to know the background of that person and even when you get married, you pray that the Lord should bless the marriage. Some people say they are going to test, pray the Lord will reveal the background,” she said.
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Despite instances where partners avoided sex before marriage and later realized they were sexually incompatible after marriage, Mrs Kwakye still vehemently opposed the idea of pre-marital sex to identify whether or not partners are sexually compatible.
She stressed that the youth must trust God for a perfect partner.
“Just trust God that the Lord has given you the best man or woman,” she noted.
The Ghana Statistical Service in a recent report released last month disclosed that 50% of unmarried women aged 15-24 had engaged in pre-marital sexual intercourse, with 47% of men between that age range engaging in same.
Among the never-married women aged 15-19, 33.9% (1 out of every 3) had engaged in sexual intercourse, with only 24.1% of never-married women aged 20-24 (1 out of 4) being virgins (never engaged in sexual intercourse).
Per the report, never-married men aged 15-24 had 33.9% (1 out of every 3) engaging in sexual intercourse with 53.8% of them never having sexual intercourse.
According to the Statistical Service, the proportion of never-married young women who have never had sexual intercourse has seen a decline from the 55% recorded in 2008 to the 2022 figure of 50%. The proportion of never-married young men who have never had sexual intercourse also declined from 60% in 2008 to 53% in 2022.