“We were girls but suddenly became mothers”: Evaluating the effects of teenage motherhood on girl’s educational attainment in the Volta Region

“We were girls but suddenly became mothers”: Evaluating the effects of teenage motherhood on girl’s educational attainment in the Volta Region

Evidence suggests that teenage motherhood undermines human capital development such as the education of young girls in developing economies. Teenage motherhood is associated with school dropout due to stigmatization and inadequacy of finance to support their studies and the need to care for their ch...

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Main Authors: Anthony Kwame Morgan, Seth Agyemang, Emmanuel Dogbey, Abdul Wahid Arimiyaw, Alfred Foster Senior Owusu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Series:Cogent Social Sciences
Subjects:
education
poverty
school
sex education
teenage mothers
teenage pregnancy
ghana
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2036312

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