Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 Majority of the participants had a positive outlook on incorporating SRHE in the school curriculum. They also emphasized on the importance of incorporating the topic within the subject Islam taught in schools so that the most accurate, religiously acceptable and age appropriate information could be given to the students. 10.2 Perception on relationships and marriage Almost all who participated in the FGDs claimed that it was a common phenomenon in the society to get involved in relationships at a very early stage of life and more than half of the respondents stated that it could happen as early as 10 or 11 years. However, when asked about the most common age at which Maldivians got into relationships, almost all participants stated that it was during the early teenage years. Further, many participants who had claimed that children in their islands began relationships at the age of 10 years stated that it was usually around this time that children start interacting with children from the opposite sex and these relationships usually become more serious once these children enter their teenage years. Additionally, most participants stated that the meaning of the term ‘relationship’ was not always clear among youngsters and that there was a tendency to confuse friendships with intimate relationships. It was also unclear if any of these relationships were romantic, physically intimate or as some participants put it as, a “mimicry of what the elders did”. The reaction of parents towards their children being in such relationships ranged from; approval, indifference to outright disapproval. Majority of the parents disapprove of such conduct, especially if their children were in school. However, some respondents highlighted that there were some parents who disapproved of such relationships until their child completed school and 58 THEMATIC ANALYSIS