FAMILY PLANNING INFORMATION SOURCES AND MEDIA EXPOSURE AMONG NIGERIAN MALE ADOLESCENTS: A CASE STUDY OF EKITI SOUTHWEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE

The study examined the relationship between social cultural factors_ and media exposure about .famil.y planning among Nigerian male adolescents. It was assun d that sociocultural factors could,be impediments to Fa ily planning infarmat.i.on and as a re sult hinder rec eptivity to contraception. Men. are considered as neglected vulnerable group in family planning programmes. Eventhough they take dominant decisions about the number of children their partner should bear in partriarchal societies they have hot been"properly targeted for family p anning education programmes. Not until recently most family planning progr·ammes and researches focus on , women, who do not· have -absolute control of their fertility. Adolescents are worst.off in the sens·e that they are repr_essed by pare tal control which usually have implication for early pregnancy and mostly. lead to early departure Crom school. As a result this.study investigated the sociocultural factors militating against·mal adolescents exposure to Camily planning. Since health centres àre the major sources .of information about family planning whiçh are mostly accessible to qnly women we thereforè assumed that men are likely to depend on outside sources for information. Hence, the quest for their preferred source of information for the improvement of the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) programme on family planning.