Value |
Category |
1 |
Health of mother |
2 |
Risk of birth defect |
3 |
Fetus not viable |
4 |
No money to take care of baby |
5 |
Too young to have child |
6 |
Not ready to be a mother |
7 |
No one to help me look after the child |
8 |
Wanted to delay childbearing |
9 |
Wanted to space child |
10 |
Wanted to continue schooling |
11 |
Wanted to continue working |
12 |
Wanted no more children |
13 |
Did not love the father |
14 |
Did not want to stay with the father |
15 |
Partner did not want child/denied the pregnancy |
16 |
Father of child died |
17 |
Child's sex |
18 |
Because of rape |
19 |
To avoid shame |
20 |
Afraid of parents |
21 |
Parents insisted |
96 |
Other |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.