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Poverty, childcare responsibilities, and stigma hinder adolescent mothers from returning to school in a low-income urban informal settlement in Kenya.

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العنوان: Poverty, childcare responsibilities, and stigma hinder adolescent mothers from returning to school in a low-income urban informal settlement in Kenya.
المؤلفون: Mukabana S; Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya., Abuya B; Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya., Kabiru CW; Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya., Ajayi AI; Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
المصدر: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jul 22; Vol. 19 (7), pp. e0307532. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 22 (Print Publication: 2024).
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Poverty* , Mothers*/psychology , Social Stigma* , Schools* , Urban Population*, Humans ; Kenya ; Adolescent ; Female ; Pregnancy ; Young Adult ; Child Care ; Adult
مستخلص: Background: While a few studies have examined barriers to school re-entry among adolescent mothers, studies focusing on the experiences of girls in low-income informal settlements are scarce. We examined the factors that hindered parenting girls living in a resource-constrained urban setting from re-enrolling in school.
Study Setting: We conducted the study in Korogocho, a low-income urban informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
Methods: Barriers to school re-entry were documented through inductive thematic analysis of 32 in-depth interviews with pregnant and parenting adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 years (N = 22), parents/guardians (N = 10), and 10 key informant interviews with teachers (N = 4), and community leaders (N = 6).
Results: Interviewed girls blamed their being out of school on their childcare responsibilities, poverty, stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes from students and teachers, and withdrawal of parental support. While parents, teachers, and community leaders agreed that poverty and lack of childcare support hindered parenting girls from returning to school, they contended that robust support systems encompassing childcare and financial support, and less hostile school environments constituted facilitators of school re-entry among parenting adolescents.
Conclusion: While the 2020 National Guidelines for School Re-entry in Kenya seek to deter the exclusion of adolescent mothers from education thereby ensuring retention, transition and completion at all basic education levels, the findings underscore the need for programs that ensure that pregnant and parenting adolescents have the requisite financial, material, and childcare support to facilitate their retention or re-enrollment in school in line with the Guidelines. School administrators and the Ministry of Education should develop and implement interventions that make the school environment less hostile for parenting girls.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Mukabana et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20240722 Date Completed: 20240722 Latest Revision: 20240724
رمز التحديث: 20240725
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC11262689
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307532
PMID: 39038001
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0307532