CHALLENGES OF PROVIDING REHABILITATIVE SECONDARY EDUCATION FOR TEENAGEMOTHERS IN WOMEN DAY SECONDARY SCHOOL IN MINNA, NIGER STATE

Abstract

The study examined challenges of providing rehabilitative secondary education for teenage mothers in Women Day
Secondary School Minna, Niger State. Three research objectives, two research questions and onehypothesis guided
the study. Descriptive survey design was used with (100) sample size comprise of (80) teenage mothers and (20)
teachers. A self-designed questionnaire tagged “Challenges of Providing Rehabilitative Education Questionnaire”
(CPREQ) was used and it was validated by four (4) experts with 0.79reliability index value. Data collected were
analysed using frequency counts, percentage to answer research questions and independent t-test was used to test
the null hypotheses. Results indicated that, lack of financial support, irregular school attendance, lack of motivation
and difficulty in enforcing discipline ranked highest among the challenges in providing rehabilitative education to
teenage mothers, the result showed thatthere is a significant difference between the perception of teachers and
students on the challenges of providing rehabilitative education for teenage mothers. Based on the results, it was
recommended that among others that, efforts should be made by government and non-governmental organizations to
build more schools for teenage mothers and teachers in such schools should be motivated to provide realistic
sexuality education to teenage mothers.