Female students attending a forum to mark the International Women’s Day at Koforidua had identified pre-marital sex especially while in school as one of the major challenges that could prevent female students from achieving their goals in life.

Ms Docia Ofosua of Koforidua Secondary Technical Senior High School (SECTECH) who was leading the discussion explained that, apart from pre-marital sex sometimes leading to pregnancy and school dropout, many young promising ladies sometimes placed a burden on themselves for the rest of their lives through pre-marital sex.

The burden of caring for unwanted child, entering into unplanned and accidental marriages, the possibility of contracting sexually transmitted infections, developing fistula at child birth and sometimes death, were mostly on the female partner.

She therefore advised the participants to focus on their education and their future goals and avoid using their mobile phones to watch pornographic films which would focus their minds on sex.

Ms Fosua said often men respect their educated wives better and accord them the necessary rights as wives than less educated ones.

She urged women to be assertive, have self-confidence and never give up in the pursuit of their goals in life.

Ms Fosua was speaking at a forum organized by the Passionate African Leadership Institute (PALI-Ghana), a civil society organization in collaboration with Abibiman Foundation and Global Call Action Against Poverty (GCAP) under the Ghana Action 2015 platform at Koforidua.