Socio-economic Factors determining Teenage Pregnancy in Ede South Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria

Gabriel Olusola Owagbemi and Rachael Seun Oluwadare
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Gabriel Olusola Owagbemi: Department of Sociology, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria
Rachael Seun Oluwadare: Department of Human Kinetics & Health Education, Adekunle Ajasin University

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2020, vol. 4, issue 7, 343-349

Abstract: The study seeks to examine the socio-economic factors determining teenage pregnancy; its effects on teenage pregnant woman; public attitude to teenage pregnancy and how to reduce teen pregnancy in Ede south local government area of Osun State, Nigeria. Quantitative method of data collection through the use of questionnaire was employed to elicit information from 120 respondents who were randomly selected from the study area. The study found that, 95% of the respondent attributed teen pregnancy to parents’ socio-economic status. Similarly 97.5% of the respondents were of the view that the environment that a child grew could cause teenage pregnancy; Majority of the respondents (84.2%) felt that lack of adequate sex education for a girl child could cause teenage pregnancy. Its effects on a girl-child range from; exposure of a girl child to hardship (95.9%); it truncates a girl child’s ambition (82.5%); The ways to curb teen pregnancies also range from; involvement of parents in their daughters’ sexual affairs (71.7%); public sensitization by government on the danger of teenage pregnancy (94.2%). The test of hypothesis established that public attitude towards teenage pregnancy has a significant positive relationship with the effect of teenage pregnancy [r (118) = 0.02, p

Date: 2020
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