After shocking revelations were made of a high number of teenage pregnancies during this Years KCPE examinations, more shocking revelations have been made about girls born and raised in the Villages.
Village girls are known to be well bred and much more reserved but if the recent revelations are anything to go by, you will change your opinion on them and infact find ways to advice them.
A study has shown that most Village girls start engaging in sexual activities in Form 2. This is a period when most girls are believed to be around 16 years.
The study supported by the ministry of health also shows that despite engaging in early sex, most of the sexual relations in the viallge do not involve the use of contraceptives.
Majority of the village girls do not use contraceptives until 22 years of age.
Thus village girls start giving birth early and also get married early at 20 years on average, says the study.
Those in towns, often thought to be more hedonistic, break their virginity late at 18.4 years, probably after completing secondary school.
They begin using contraceptives early at 21.9 years.
The study was conducted by the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020), an independent project that has been tracking trends in contraceptive use and family planning in Kenya since 2014.
Results were released at the just-ended 2nd International Conference on Maternal, New-born and Child Health in Nairobi.
“The gap between first sex and first contraceptive use among rural women is six years and 3.5 years for urban women,” said Prof Peter Gichangi, the principal investigator for PMA2020 in Kenya.
PMA2020 is supported by MoH, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, several non-governmental organisations and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this study, researchers sampled 151 enumeration areas drawn by the KNBS and 5,876 females were interviewed between November and December 2017.
“For adolescent women, the survey found that in general rural women on average have sex earlier, marry earlier and use contraception later in life than urban counterparts,” Prof Gichangi said.
These shocking revelations have been made public even as Education CS ordered for a probe into the increasing number of teenage pregnancies in the country.
The CS on Thursday ordered the quality assurance team in the Education ministry to investigate and file a report of all cases of pregnancies among school girls.
The CS noted that the move will enable the ministry to outline measures to curb such cases.
“In the last three days, we have received a report of nine girls who have given birth during the exam period. We are yet to get a final report,” said Ms Mohamed.
The minister urged parents to instill good discipline in their children through guidance and counseling to ensure such incidents are prevented.
“It is the responsibility of parents to talk to their children and ensure that they do not engage in sexual relations at a tender age,” she said.