Most authors have linked poverty to teenage pregnancy and its subsequent motherhood. They see poverty as a
cause at the same time an effect of teenage pregnancy. For instance, Keller, Hilton & Twumasi-Ankrah (1999) opined
that in rural communities, family financial exigencies and social custom induce girls to stay out of school and enter into
early sexual relationships which lead them into getting pregnant at early stages of their lives thereby making them
continue to be in the cycle of poverty. This presupposes that tackling teenage pregnancy would have a trickling down
effects on poverty and vice-versa.