Kumasi, Feb 10, GNA- Madam Augustine Boakye, National President of the Christian Mothers Association, has blamed the media for painting a wrong picture about the celebration of Valentine's Day.

She pointed out that although Valentine's Day celebration was to show love to all, especially married people and to members of the family, the impression or picture being painted by the media, especially the electronic media tended to interpret it as an occasion for sex.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Sunday on the essence of the celebration of Valentine's Day, Madam Boakye described the drinking and street jams associated with the day as negative which brought in its wake teenage pregnancies and the contracting of sexually transmitted diseases, thereby completely debasing the essence of the day. She challenged the media to research into their programmes on Valentine's Day and their effect on their listeners and readers to know which of them to retain and those to discard.

Madam Boakye advised parents to guide and monitor closely their children at all times, especially before, during and after Valentine's Day celebration to know the type of dresses they wear, the types of people they move with and the activities they engage in to avoid shattering their future dreams of having well trained and educated future leaders.