Chief of Kwaprow a suburb of Cape Coast in the Central Region, Nana Kwesi Mensah ll has apportioned blame to parents for being a contributing factor to the upsurge of teenage girl's current lifestyle of dating multiple guys.

According to the chief, the aforementioned lifestyle among teenage girls is presently on the rise because majority of parents in the country have neglected their required responsibilities on their children.

He made this statement at the community's 2024 Ahobaa festival, celebrated on the theme "Child Marriage, Cohabitation: The Role Of Parents."

Nana Kwesi Mensah addressed that parents have a special responsibility on their wards and needs to stamp their authority in ensuring that child marriage, cohabitation, and teenage pregnancy ends in the Central Region and Ghana in general.

He bewailed that this promiscuous lifestyle adopted by most girls, have left majority of them pregnant and taken over various maternity wards across the region instead of married and grown-up women.

The chief admonished that most parents instead of protecting their children from the dangers of life, are rather those who drive their fragile girl children into the arms of men out of their selfish gains or probably in their quest to shun from their responsibilities.

He recounted that most parents act unconcern to the welfare of their girl children, yet are the same people to drive these teenage girls out of the house should they conceive along the line, to go leave with the man behind the pregnancy.

Thereby, contributing to the rise of child marriage and cohabitation in the region and country at large. To which the chief vehemently spoke against.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan