Thread by @HildaMuteshi

The rise in teenage parenting increases dependency ratio making everyone in your family poor and increasing the countries poverty index. Now listen

Before you brag that you just turned 18 and you can make decisions, think of the impact of your decision.
Kenya doesn't have money disbursed for people who are unable to take care of families

A proud teenage parent is a burden to the parents. Or to the relatives. That means that those people can not do any investment because they lack surplus on the budget. And that's a problem in Africa

I met a an old woman, I was in a matatu reading an article. She quickly concluded that I am a student whose parents are struggling to pay my fees and I quote her pain

" she said to me, my gal, I want you to work hard in school. Your parents are struggling to pay your fees, they hope you will graduate get a job and help them

she added that, don't make your mother cry raising you, cry paying your fees, and cry raising your kids. I thought she was done with me. No

She continues by saying, achana na wanaume. Hawaishi, don't get pregnant before you finish your studies. Achana na sponsor, we don't want to burry you. Your mother has cried enough

she decided to invite me to church, that I need God. I feel her, I feel her pain like any other parent who is frustrated. The decisions we make hurt our parents, they are not bold enough to say it hurts

I told her thanks, I will come to church. She left satisfied that she helped one girl. I never bothered to tell her that am a PhD student

I decided to spread the word, to tell gals how parents feel and how the decisions they make hurts in the long run

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