The Relationship Between Teenage Pregnancy and Increasing Level of Poverty in Rwanda: A Case of Kayonza District.

Gisa,, Shakila (2020) The Relationship Between Teenage Pregnancy and Increasing Level of Poverty in Rwanda: A Case of Kayonza District. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Teenage pregnancy affects the child‘s education since they tend to quit school in order to attend to the child hence affecting their future abilities to compete with their counterparts on the job market which may increasing poverty in society. These create confusion between teenage pregnancy and increasing poverty in society because the observation done by the researcher showed that most teenage pregnancy are poverty and this pushes the researcher to examine the relationship between teenage pregnancy and increasing poverty in society with reference to Kayonza District located in Eastern Province of Rwanda. The specific objectives were to find out which cause teens pregnancy in Kayonza District by different age groups, examine the levels of understanding on sexual reproductive health among Kayonza residence, to examine the levels of poverty among different families and the number of teen pregnancy cases and to assess relationship between teenage pregnancy and increasing poverty in Kayonza District. Different methods and techniques are used on the field for collection and data is analyzing by SPSS for facilitating the researcher to make presentation and analysis of data. The techniques used in data collection were questionnaire, interview and documentary review in order to achieve the objectives of the study. The results indicate that there is a strong relationship between poverty in society and teenage pregnancy variables due to the fact that Pearson correlation is 0.214, which is positive; this indicates that changes in poverty in society are strongly correlated with changes in teenage pregnancy. There is a significant relationship between respondent’s level of poverty in society and teenage pregnancy because the Sig. 2‐tailed level is 0.023 and the relationship is a positive which means that as one variable goes up or down so will the other one. However, teenage pregnancy among young people increase the poverty in society due to the causes and consequences brought in the society which have impact in causing the poverty. During the research, one of strategies of avoiding teenage pregnancy is establishing umugoroba w’abana where young people should be educated reproductive health as there is Umugoroba w’ababyeyi where parents discussed on family issues. The researcher generally concluded that the objectives were achieved and the research questions generally were answered.

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