Early teenage lovers
Many couples, seen with or without children, had friendships that began at school as teenagers, before they married or settled together.
In principle, it is always good for people to study and know each other very well before entering into relations or love affairs.
Children's and teenagers' liberty in advanced countries can’t be compared to that of African children and teenagers.
For example, in Africa, children are severely punished when they do wrong, but in Europe or America, punishing a child could lead to many problems. One may even end up in prison for punishing their son or their own daughter.
The rate of divorce and separation is very high in advanced countries, so I looked back to review why divorce is very low in Africa.
In Africa, it is a gross disrespect to parents when a sixteen-year-old child comes home to introduce his girlfriend or her boyfriend. However, in advanced countries, it is permitted.
Children as young as thirteen and fourteen indulged in caressing and kissing. This could go on until they go their separate ways or settle. When they finally get married, the love isn't as strong as before; in this case, the marriage doesn't go far.
Both have seen their nakedness too much when they were teenagers, to the extent that they don't value their precious bodies any longer.
Here, the dignity and the worthiness of the woman have been neglected by the man. It is always the man who causes the breakup because he wants something new.
A woman or man may find real happiness in life, marriage, living together, or in relationships when they enter into love affairs as adults rather than as teenagers.
That is the reason in Africa, separation and divorce are less common than in advanced countries.
Europe, America, Japan, Korea, and other advanced countries are far ahead in development, education, and technology, compared to Africa, yet the rate of divorce, separation, and suicide is higher than in Africa.
Smoking is like a fashion among teenagers in advanced countries, but it’s less common in Africa. Teenage pregnancy is booming in Europe and America, while it’s less common in Africa.
It's time for advanced countries to stop underestimating Africa and learn something from that continent. Africa is called a poor continent, but Europe and America forget that they made the continent poor by depending on its resources.