—The Yoruba perspective of teenage pregnancy

The Yorubas are a supportive and forgiving tribe. Their daughter will get pregnant before getting married and what the family is more concerned about is how to take care of the mother-to-be.

The Yorubas will not disown their daughter because she got pregnant out of wedlock. They accept it that a mistake has been made and they look for how to move forward. Now, this does not imply that the family of the pregnant girl is not hurt by their daughter’s actions and neither does this generalize that every Yoruba family readily accepts a daughter who gets pregnant out of wedlock. Of course, there are exceptions.


Earlier this year, the story of an 18-year old girl who was beaten to death(we all read that story) because she was impregnated by her Yoruba boyfriend surfaced and circulated the internet for a while. The boyfriend’s family had already accepted the girl and unborn child and according to the story, were already taking care of the girl in what way they could. The girl’s family, an Igbo family, however, tortured and constantly subjected the pregnant girl to the physical abuse that led to her death.

Disclaimer: This is in no way to judge the wicked actions of a family by their tribe. This is what the thoughts of a writer who has lived amongst Yorubas and is elucidating this one defining characteristic of the Yoruba family.

As stated earlier, there are some Yorubas who may take their daughters to a clinic to have the fetus aborted but such thing is usually done in a hush-hush manner because their neighbours will judge them the worse for it. To show you how the Yorubas move forward from the shame of their daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock, as soon as the child is born, they plan a naming ceremony as though it were another normal naming ceremony of a baby born to a married couple.

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That’s how it should be. What’s the point making an already bad situation worse? Most parents that are overly strict on their children, do so because of what people will think. They place other people’s opinions/gossip/judgement above the welfare of their own children. There are women that had children out of wedlock that went on to do great things.

I know other tribes mock Yorubas for this but I love my liberal Yoruba upbringing.

Crap.

So it's only Yoruba who does that,nooooo,all tribes does that,even the Hausas and Fulanis who tends to be so strict will Sexual immorality