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Table 7 Reasons that adolescents desire to have children

From: Sexual and reproductive health behavior and unmet needs among a sample of adolescents living with HIV in Zambia: a cross-sectional study

Main theme

Sub-theme

Desire for parenting

Desire for becoming a parent

Desire for taking care of children

Children as family assets

Children as my caretakers

Children as the successors of family

Positive perception on children

Love for children

Happiness brought by children

Blessing from God

Natural matter

Natural outcome of marriage

Human right

  1. Out of 153 adolescents who desired to have children in the future, 102 (66.7%) explained the reasons