While some men fear getting involved with women who are raising children on their own, others in Homa Bay County encourage young girls to get pregnant to prove they are fertile. They also added that poverty has made so many young girls exchange sex for money. As much as they try to educate them on abstinence and safe sex most girls still engage in unprotected sex. Teen pregnancies in numbersIn 2014 the Kenya Data and Health Survey showed that 1 in every 5 girls between 15-19 years is either pregnant or already a mother. Data from the United Nations Population Fund Report indicated that Kenya has recorded 378, 397 adolescent and teenage pregnancies for girls aged 10-19 years between July 2016 and June 2017, specifically, 28, 932 girls aged 10-14 and 349,465 girls aged 15-19 became pregnant.

Source: Standard Digital June 29, 2021 12:10 UTC