2018
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR)
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR) e-ISSN :2378-703X Volume-02, Issue-07, pp-45-51 www.ajhssr.com
Research Paper
Open Access
Consequences of Teenage Parenting Styles on The Attainment of Educational Goals in Mumias Sub County in Kakamega County Kenya Salome Odiemo, Peter Odera& Kenneth Otieno, MasindeMuliro University of Science and Technology ABSTRACT: The greatest global investment whose productivity leads to rapid economic growth is education. Despite this fact, teenage parenting and the subsequent parenting styles had consequences on the attainment of educational goals as was revealed by a study that was carried out in Mumias Sub-county to find out the kind of consequences that teen motherhood and teen fatherhood had on a secondary school studentsâ€&#x; academic achievement. Two objectives were set to find out the prevalence rate of teenage parenting and to determine the kind of contributions the problem had on educational accessibility. The population consisted of 55 principals, 269 teachers and 4,143 students from three classes out of the four classes in the sampled out schools. One third of the population was taken for each of the three categories of respondents which gave 18 principals heading mixed gender secondary schools, 89 class teachers and 1,367 studentsboth male and female. The students were selected using the simple-random sampling alongside purposive sampling where the teen-agers were targeted, as the stratified random sampling technique targeted principals and teachers from public mixed gender secondary schools. The study area had four divisions namely, South Wanga, WangaMkulu, East Wanga and Mumias Central from which the eighteen schools were identified. To collect data, questionnaires were designed for students, teachers and principals. Descriptive statistics namely frequency counts and percentages was used to analyze the quantitative data which was then presented in tables. The study found that teenage parenting styles had consequences on the attainment of educational goals and the recommendations are that guidance and counseling should be intensified by not only the Ministry of Education at the school level, but also by the local administration to include parents to teenagers in public forums. Guidance and Counseling should help curb the problem of teenage parenting in order to remedy the consequences on the attainment of educational goals.
KEY WORDS: Educational goals, teen fatherhood, teen motherhood, teenage parenting. I.
INTRODUCTION
This paper presents a background of the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, the objectives, consequences of teen parenting, research design, sampling procedure, results, conclusions and recommendations. The Findings Teenage parenting stylesbasically teenage motherhood and fatherhood have consequences on the attainment of educational goals. In a research study that was conducted in Mumias sub-county in a number of mixed secondary schools, it was evident that the problem of teenage parenting was prevalent and that it had consequences on the attainment of the goals of education for all stakeholders. The phenomena of teenage parenthood is a complex one and it touches on the lives of the adolescent father, mother, the child and children born to them, without forgetting their parents, schools, counseling and family planning services that have been created to help the very young parents cope with parenthood (Franklin, 1988; Caldas, 1993). The consequences of teenage parenting styles revealed a high level of moral decay among the secondary school students and that the trends were adversely increasing despite the Ministry of Education Science and Technology giving teenage parents a second chance to education. The study was aimed at verifying that teenage parenting had consequences using two objectives which were to find out the prevalence rate of teenage parenting and the consequences on educational accessibility. The findings were that teenage parenting was prevalent and that the problem had consequences on accessibility to education.
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