Student motherhood is associated with poverty, early marriages and early sexual debut.

As a result, poor academic performance by affected students, increased school dropout rates, and poor perception of school and education by student mothers following their pregnancy have become features of student motherhood. Kenya’s national average teen pregnancy rate stood at 14.9% in 2022, where one in every five adolescents aged 15–19 years is already a mother or pregnant with their first child.

While the national average demonstrated a reduction in incidences of teen pregnancy from 2014 statistics that had a national average of 18.1%, incidences of teen pregnancies among students aged 15 rose by 2.1%. The implication is that younger girls are increasingly more likely to be mothers and have more children before reaching the age of 18 years.