Al-Hikmah University Journal

High prevalence of early sexual exposure among teenagers calls for urgent interventions such as sexuality education to children in schools to stem the trends. However, Nigerians are divided over giving of sexuality education to children in schools A cross-sectional descriptive design was used; target population were parents in Ilorin metropolis (Ilorin East, South and West) Kwara State, Nigeria. Three hundred and eighty-five respondents were selected using multi-stage sampling technique), 19 items validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics in the form of frequencies percentages and means. The results revealed that majority of the parents want sexuality education to be taught at all level in secondary school. However, some parents believed that sexuality education should be introduced in primary school. Most of the respondents perceived sexuality education provision as the responsibility of parents, school and government at large. Most preferred person for sexuality education in school is health education teacher. It was recommended that, sexuality education should start from primary school through secondary school and Federal Ministry of Education should include comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in teacher/educator training programme.