Girls are discriminated against in Nigeria in access to educational opportunity, food, and nutrition.
Girls carry a heavy burden of farm work and house work.
Girls are married off at early ages, which interferes with their education or acquisition of skills needed for survival.
They are treated like pawns and never valued or treated like they should be.
In the northern Part of nigeria the girl child is seen as an asset for the parents to use to get rich by marrying her off to a wealthy man and as a reproducing machine.
The emotions and feelings of the girl child is never considered.
The girl child is not allowed to make her own choices, rather she is forced to do as told.
She is not given the chance to voice out her pain.
Beliefs must be changed about the value of girl children.
Rapid economic development is dependent upon elimination of gender bias.
Female education serves as an investment that will help facilitate the achievement of family planning objectives and the production of healthier children.
Poor female nutrition contributes to greater vulnerability to disease and to poor physical and mental development.
It is recommended that nutrition be improved for females and that illegal child labor be abolished.
Early marriage should be outlawed, and parents should be educated about the benefits of later marriage.
A National Children's Commission should be set up for defending the rights of the girl child in an educational, social, cultural, political, and economic context.
The Commission should maintain statistics on child survival and other socioeconomic factors.
Parents have an important role to fulfill in helping female children achieve the basic necessities of survival and development and in learning about the fundamentals of child development and care.
Teachers have an important role to play in teaching about sex education, drug education, family planning, and AIDS.
Women's groups have an important role to play in focusing attention on various problems confronting girl children.
Government must focus more resources on reducing the inequalities between boys and girls, change discriminatory laws, and establish political stability.
All these measures are not taken in most parts of nigeria leaving the girl child as an inferior being with no say in any matter.
That's the truth about the girl child in this country.
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The Girl Child
Non-FictionThe first step to finding a solution to a problem is identifying the problem and it's source. This book is written to shine light on the problems of the girl child in Nigeria especially in the Northern part of the country. Many of us know that these...
