Nepal, April 20 -- When was it you reached out to your children to talk about sexual and reproductive health and answer their queries?

I was in grade seven in school when a fellow classmate asked me if I knew what 'sex' meant. I replied that I had no clue. He told me to go home and find its meaning from the dictionary. I obliged politely, went back home and the meaning read "sex is an intercourse between a man and a woman". I mugged it up and the next day at school recited the same line to this friend. He asked me if I understood what it meant. I nodded no to him. He then asked me if I knew how I was born. I told him exactly what my parents had told me: "My parents got married, there were magical rituals and god gave them me as their chi...