{"id":224449,"date":"2026-02-20T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-support-sexuality-education-access-to-contraceptives-regardless-of-age-marital-status\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:52:54","slug":"lesotho-basotho-support-sexuality-education-access-to-contraceptives-regardless-of-age-marital-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-support-sexuality-education-access-to-contraceptives-regardless-of-age-marital-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Support Sexuality Education, Access to Contraceptives Regardless of Age, Marital Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Most citizens support women&#8217;s autonomy in marriage and childbearing decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overwhelming majorities of Basotho say women should be able to decide for themselves whether and when to get married (86%) as well as when to have children and how many children to have (78%).<\/li>\n<li>Women are more likely than men to assert women&#8217;s autonomy in choices about marriage (89% vs. 83%) and childbearing (86% vs. 69%).<\/li>\n<li>Nearly nine in 10 citizens (88%) &#8220;agree&#8221; (16%) or &#8220;strongly agree&#8221; (72%) that pupils&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most citizens support women&#8217;s autonomy in marriage and childbearing decisions. Key findings Overwhelming majorities of Basotho say women should be able to decide for themselves whether and when to get married (86%) as well as when to have children and how many children to have (78%). Women are more likely than men to assert women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[6450,258,256,6607,18241,14987,1632,4717,1407,12908,257,34999,254,8912,6096],"class_list":["post-224449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-age","tag-basotho","tag-contraceptives","tag-education","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-marital","tag-news","tag-sexuality","tag-south-africa-today","tag-status","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}