Inappropriate sexual conduct by school students is partly as a result of their exposure to such activity by adults, says a veteran guidance counsellor.
Saul Leacock also cites the ZR sub-culture as a major contributor to slack behaviour among students.
Leacock, president of the Barbados Association of Guidance Counsellors, said adolescents’ behaviour was influenced by their home environment and immediate community, their search for identity plus a desire to fit in, to experiment and satisfy their curiosity.
He said this was a vulnerable period for them, particularly if they lacked parental guidance or didn’t enjoy a relationship with their parents that allowed them to communicate their feelings. And it was at this impressionable time that made them easily influenced, as they didn’t have the wisdom and intelligence to be able to control themselves. (SP)
