A woman took me to task two weeks ago about “the amount of sex WomanWise was pushing.”

In a heated conversation, she blamed me (and people like me) for “all the sex them young schoolchildren having” and even threatened to take her gripe to the Media Complaints Authority.

Last Wednesday, we would learn the REAL reason schoolchildren were engaging in sex — broken homes, violence and poverty.

The study, conducted by the Unit for Social Problem Analysis and Policy, was headed by Dr Daphne Phillips.

Reading the report on the study took me back to the phone conversation I had with the angry caller.

I remembered telling her repeatedly that parents, not the media, were to be held accountable for their children.

As parents, we have a duty to be involved in every aspect of our children’s lives — what they watch on television, the magazines they read, the friends they hang out with — rather than leave them to their own devices.

The Proverb: “Train up a child in the way he should go” often pops into my head whenever I hear stories of young people going astray.

As a society, we need to wake up.

The duty of parenting is not the media’s job, nor is it for school teachers and religious leaders.

We have a problem with our young people and sex. Let’s deal with that head on home by home, child by child and stop playing the blame game.

Have a great week.