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Item Gender and female reproductive communication in Ugep, Nigeria(Delmas Communications Ltd., 2010-10) Obono, K.; Obono, O.Gender affects the communication of female reproductive matters in Ugep. Biological and cultural determinism of gender stratification theories help explain this sex-based interaction. The funtionalist suggest that familes are organised among instrumental-expressive lines, with men specializing in instrumental tasks and women in expressive ones. Accondingly, the study reveals tha mother play a greater roles in the communication of female sexual and reproductive health matters. They are evaluated better communicators, more frequent communicators and with less negative styles of communication. This finding shows a gendered communication struture where there exist very little discussions among fathers and daughters. Rather than sexuality communication, fathers' conversation focused on education, carrier aspiration, chid discipline and material provision. mothers were thus identified as playing the major expressive role in female communication. Gender- role attitude is therfore significantly associated with reproductive communication in the family.Item Media exposure and reproductive behaviour change among generations of adolescents in Ugep, Nigeria(2009) Obono, K.; Obono, O.This paper examines change in reproductive behaviour across several generations of adolescent girls in Ugep, sourtern Nigeria. It is based on a study of key factors promoting differences in girls' reproductive behaviour across this generations, which linked this change media exposure and a number of social variables that challenge traditional views of the relationships. The study found alterations in adolescent sexual activities, contraceptive prevalence, voluntary abortion and the fertility. Female age at sexual debut was found to be declining, with 11.3% of adolescent females initiating sex at 11 years relative to 4.1 percent from previous cohorts. This finding in particular reflects the onset of liberal sexual norms, accentuated by ease of entry into consensual unions and trends towards sexual networking. The general findings point to the role of western media, poverty and pressures related to an urbanizing lifestyle on girls' aspirations and reproductive choices. In this way,it contribute to the growing body of work on reproductive change in an era of serious population' debate and, therefore, suggests a need for adopting alternative models for explaining reproductive change in sub- saharan communities.