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Poverty
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Limited provisions
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“… my parents cannot pay school fees for all the 7 children so it is only one boy who is in school now …”
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“I had no knickers and when I could go into periods, I would have nothing to use and that could trouble me a lot …”
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Large families
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“… we are 8 children, that number was big...So it was too much and yet there was no money …”
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Dropping out of school
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“I stopped going to school when the pregnancy was 2 months; I could no longer concentrate in class because I was only thinking of the pregnancy …”
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Alcohol abuse
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“… whenever he [father] would get money, he would go drinking and leave us … he was not bothered …”
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Broken family structure
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“When my mother left, there was no one to pay my school fees …”
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“When my father died, my mother could not raise my school fees …”
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Vulnerability
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Marital entrapment
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“… others are just forced to get married …”
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“… I cannot go back and burden my family.”
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“I decided to get married to a person who could provide them [family] with food and he is paying school fees for my sisters up to now …”
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Partner coercion
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“… he [partner] could not allow me use any family planning method even up to now, he does not want me to use it; he is very against it and very tough when it comes to using family planning …”
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“… he [partner] touched my arm and felt it and he ordered me to remove it immediately; he was very bitter.”
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Domestic violence
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Abuse
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“… he [the father] would come back at night and start abusing us, chasing us out of home …”
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“The condition at home was also hard; the kind of life we were living in was not good …”
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Demotivators for repeat adolescent birth
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Partner abandonment
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“Unfortunately, he [partner] no longer is helping me … I am struggling on my own …”
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“… he refused me completely … actually I have gone through a lot and it has made me stay without getting another child.”
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Stern warning
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“I shouted at them to leave issues of my child alone so I became tough on her …”
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Objection to marriage
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“No, no, we have never wished any of them to get married, we instead encouraged them to study …”
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“I did not marry; I stayed home with my parents.”
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Empowerment
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Economic activity
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“My mother gave me capital to start business …”
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Contraception use
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“Am now using injectaplan for 3 months …”
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Resumption of schooling
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“I had to suggest to her to do this course she was positive so I took her.”
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