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EFFECTS OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GIRLS
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Pregnancy is a wonderful gift of a woman she enjoys every moment of holding her own child. In
addition it brings joyful feeling and positive atmosphere among her close relative however early
pregnancy is considered as a pandemic to the under age child her family. The girl who has an
illegitimate child at he age of 16 suddenly has 90 percent of her life cript.beside thenationresearch
council report has shown that under age mother have a high chance of social and economic
detream in their live (Hoffman and maynard,2008 )in another way early pregnancy is a pandemic
wich leads to the negative impacts ion teen mothers
Teenage pregnancy has become aglobal problem most countries in the world are going trough this
problem with questions on how they can reduce and fenish this problem in the world. On the other
side there is a problem of gender quality where female are gihting for their rights of having equal
chances of job opportunity and representation as male gender while teenage pregnancy is a block
to majority of teenage who are becaming who are becaming pregnancy while in primary level and
secondary levelwhich kill dreams and feelings of their life but because of teenage pregnancy which
affects their perfomamce in school is the major hindrance to the educational success of girls in
developing contries .
Teenage pregnancy is affecting teenager socialy abnd academically not forgetting health wise
pregnancy issue most crucial aspect of human existence in life it is related to both onfade 1999; sai
1995 said. United state America usa is pregnancy among adolencent is emerging issue worldwide
despecialy in sub-sahara Africa .about 20% of adoleencent consive during their fist sexual exposure
and 50% within six months (aderibigbe 2008, arooye 2010) as statistic read. However teenage
pregnancy is still a challenge to ministry of education (MOE)and social on how it can be stoped and
however introduction of sex ideas on the ouths minds. This study is looking at the impact of early
pregnancy on the school performance at the end of the term.
1.1 PROBLEM STATIMENT

Girl child have been tretade and protected as afragile all measures have taken to protect girl
child from any dangour like equal opportunity in education have been provided not for
getting jobs. Apart from teenage pregnancy that have been falling victims of its primary
level and secondary level and also university levlel . teenage pregnancy have become a
block to education suces of most girls in schools.teenage pregnancy is destraptive to the
learning process of woman and leeds to poor academic performance of girls,abotions and
leav schools . girls who comlited their schools withoutgetting pregnancy have become
successful because education equip them for desent jobs improve their status and self
esteem in the community and improve their livehood re-enry have meet a lot of a lot of
negative and stigma that the girls face. This study look at the impact of early pregnancy on
the school performance on the girls and how the young mothers should be tretad with
respect and not seen as moraly ill.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

This study will analyze the teenage pregnancy on the school performance on gorls in
ntimaru word in secondary schools.this study will bring out the cause of teenage pregnancy
and how it affects their academic performance and surgested on how teenage mothers
should be treated while in school and at home to help them in their academic life and the
society should stop judging every pregnancy teento be moraly ill.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1.3.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVES
To determine the effects of teenage pregnancy ON EDUCATION.
to establish the reason for teenage pregnancy on girls.
1.3.2 specific objectives
to establish the impacts of teenage pregnancies on academic performance
to determine the factor contributing to teenage pregnancy.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

what are the impacts of teenage pregnancy on acdemic perfomance?
what are the reason for teenage pregnancies?
what are the factor contributing to teenage pregnancies?
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The research will be carried out withine Makararangwe sub location in ntimaru ward where
it will cover 10km from ntimaru to makararangwe and it will be conducted in public school
which are the ideal for the study. The research will concentrate the servey in ntimaru ward
specifically in eight selected schools. It will look at culrtural risk factors that results to early
pregnancy academic performance impact of early pregnancy on the school performance of
girls inhigh schools in ntimaru ward and then problems of teenage pregnancy and then
summary of literature review.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study will give ways of helping teenagesrs who are mothers in school on way of
improving in their academic performance. It will provide ways on how teachers can handle
pregnancy teens in school.it will help to raise self estem of teenage mothers at home and
schools they will be able to understand and express them selves without fear.
The policy makers abnd authority in education department may use evidence indicated by
this research to formulate policies to solve this challenges of poor academic performance
because of teenage pregnancy.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE SYUDY

Some teens where proud about their pregnancy and also they don’t accept that they where
pregnant
Sme schools where not ready to give the exact number of teenage pregnancies they have.
Some girls after being found out that they where pregnancy they attempt abortion.
There was financial problem interms of transport.
1.8 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

There are high rate of pregnancies in puplic schools and this has been shown statisticaly that
seems not to end very soon. Teens of today have a lot of freedom because of the removal of
the purnishment in school and teachers are not allowed to punish,so teachers have relaxed
and parents have no time their girls back at home. This has brought the needs of a research
on the reasons behind the effects of teenage pregnancy on academic performamnce of girls
in secondary school.
1.9 ASSUMPTION OF THE STUDY

Teenagers pregnancies are caused by poverty , this is true because some of girls lack money
for their needs hence they go to look money from men who impregnant them.
1.10 ABRIVIATIONS
USA………………………………………… United state of America
DGS………………………………………..Development goals
MOE………………………………………. Ministry of education
Bodaboda…………………………………Motorcycle riders
MSI…………………………………………….Marie stops international
PPI……………………………………………Pre primary one
NCPD…………………………………………National council for population and development
1.11DEFINATION OF TERMS
Teenagers ……………………young people who have been pregnanted
Society………………………..this is a largest group of people who lieve together with some
common aspects
Pregnancy……………………this is to undergo the stage of conception
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 CULTURAL RISK FACTORS AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Teenage is an issue that is giving many people including parents and the girls themselves
sleepless nights because of the high the high rates of pregnancy in Kenya.
This issue is killing dreams of our young girls in school . it is a perndemic that seems not to
end very soon if the current measures are not discovered of stopping it. Our young
teenagers seems to utilize the little freedom they get when the schools are closed and the
little break they get they use it without wondering waried of the feature. They are like
scientist who are using every single minute in discovering a vaccine foraperticular varus for
HIV. Teenagers are using more of rtheir time in sex more than any other thing during
holidays
When the school are open several girls came back when they are pregnancy . our youyhs
are getting sexual activity at an early age as early as a year of which even 9 years old girl get
pregnant our teenagers lack proper guidance by the community but nowdays a child
belongs to the parents only that even teachers are not allowed to punish them hence leads
to moral decay and early pregnancy each month and single days. The youth are growing up
with less respect to the elders hence doing their wish without any fear
Theresa Brained indicate that teenage pregnancy is a challenge that requires more support
and education encourage girls to avoid early pregnancy intil it is the right time . however
this is not happening now because the parents have neglected their duties and had offered
unlimited freedom to their teenagers . the level of structure of regulation and rules and
farimly nolonger exist.
No one to guide children and put rules to follow at home parents are busy not like long time
ago.ther is know engagement in the family in the issue of love affairs between adolescents
is not there any more teenagers enter into a relationship without guidance from their
parents who cannot tell them what is rong and what is right because of relationshipand sex.
They do not know how to handle it the teenagers of today grow up naïve of sexual dangour
and benefit. Their parents are not willing to discouse with them freely about assues relating
to sexuality this makes our teenagers to be curriors to know more about sex by
experimenting it and hence to know more about sex by experimenting it and hence leading
to teachering attitude they have towardssex.

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EFFECTS OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GIRLS

1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

1.1 PROBLEM STATIMENT

1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

1.7 LIMITATION OF THE SYUDY

1.8 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

1.9 ASSUMPTION OF THE STUDY

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