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| Assessment of the Family Income Source of Parents or Guardians as the Contributing Factor to Teenage Pregnancy on Public Secondary Schools in Kilolo District Council.
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Newaho Mgallah, Sosthenes Ruheza, John C. Pesha
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Abstract:
Teenage student pregnancy is becoming more problematic nowadays in Tanzania especially in rural areas and some few cases in urban areas. This study aimed at assessing the family income source of parents or guardians to teenage pregnancy in public secondary schools in Kilolo District Council. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study had a sample size of 46 respondents who were distributed with questionnaires as well as focus group and interview as data collection tools. Quantitative as well as qualitative data were analyzed through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The findings indicated that economic factor was the leading factor contributing to teenage pregnancy among teenage students and it was mainly pointed out that those parents were not formally employed had high probability of their daughters to get early pregnancy because low and unreliable family income (poverty) which made their daughters to miss basic needs like three meals per day, transport fare and regular changing of clothes. The study recommends that parents or guardians must work hard to make sure their daughters are not attracted to engage into sexual intercourse because they lack necessary basic needs at home like three meals per day, sanitary pads during menstrual period and lastly parents need to educate their daughters about lifestyle of their fellow friends like if their friends are changing clothes regularly they should not imitate them because of the nature of the family income.
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