As an Aside, What fuels this is not just poverty stricto sensu. Religion, environment and upbringing is a crucial deciding factor. When you go to these mushroom evangelical churches, they preach all manner of sermons on children being a blessing from God. Undeniably the assertion is agreeable but what they fail to preach in addition that is more important than that blessing from God is the responsibility that comes with it of which after the religious merriment, the bearer carries his or her own cross. Environment on this part is one were your rural commonalities interplay. In the sense that marriages are limited to cohabitation, procreation and church or mosque. Upbringing lastly falls heavily on the woman or wife or mother whose decision cannot be made considering family planning and limited exposure puts her on the subservience of the man or husband. It is not poverty alone that bounded those that procreate and fail in their responsibilities as parents at the end. Religion's influence is stronger even for the well to do.