ABSTRACT This research is devoted to exposing the evil behind abortion and the impact of Pastoral care and counseling in curbing abortion among teenagers in Gideon II Baptist Association of Lagos East Baptist Conference. The research... more
ABSTRACT This research is devoted to exposing the evil behind abortion and the impact of Pastoral care and counseling in curbing abortion among teenagers in Gideon II Baptist Association of Lagos East Baptist Conference. The research examined the problem of abortion among teenagers and how pastoral care and counseling can be used as tool to check the menace among them. The writer of this essay carried out an analytical research. The writer of this research applied descriptive method of research and questionnaire is used as an instrument for collecting information that revealed how pastoral care and counseling can be used as tool to reduce the act of abortion in the society especially among teenagers. The finding reveals that the process of abortion on it own is traumatic, and the consequential effects are numerous. Few among them are infertility, damage of some internal organs that should fertilize, excessive bleeding and untimely death. The findings further reveal that, teenagers engage in abortion with different reasons which ranges from guilty feeling, shame and insult, parental scolding, anger and humiliation, pursuance of education, bid to keep one’s integrity in the society among others. Hence, the study recommended that Pastors should take the ministry of care and counseling in the church very serious, Pastors should avoid relating with his parishioners in distance, Pastors should avoid being too harsh on the church members especially the teenagers, The church should create a ministry that will take care of teenagers
