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Relationship Between Child’s Rights Act And Girl Child Education
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The problems of the lack of girl-child education emanates from the root of:
• The culture of the northerners
• Religion
• Poverty
• Weak father figures and ignorant mothers who knew no better
• Early marriage and
Placement of priority on the Boy-Child etc.
Therecent
report to the African Union on the rights and welfare of the Nigerian
child showed that about 6,000 children are in prison and detention
centres across the country. Girls make up less than 10 per cent and they
mainly come into contact with the law as a result of criminal acts
committed against them such as rape, sexual exploitation and
trafficking.
Statement of the Problem
The panacea of poverty,
family disorganization and. societal true development has suffered
several sets backs over the years due to socio-cultural and economic
factors. Till date, girls constitute the largest population of
illiterate children worldwide. Extreme poverty, mass illiteracy, large
scale ignorance, high maternal mortality and fertility rates, child
wastages and lack of access to health, education and social services may
sound far and fictional to many indigenes and visitors.
The problems
of girl-child education have been in existence since the introduction
of British rule in Nigeria. Parents were very reluctant to send their
female children to school. This was partly because the traditional
system of education often dictates that the place of the girl or woman
in the society is in the home. Many children, who should be in school,
particularly girls, were involved in unpleasant acts such as child
labour, child abuse, child trafficking, prostitution and were all
deprived from Child’s Rights Act decree law enforcement. More often than
not, these children were subjected to inhuman treatment as some suffer
physical abuse, economic exploitation and denial of opportunity to
education. Most of them were under-fed and if they are fortunate enough
to be in school, they are hardly given any time to play and rest
properly.
Mohammed (2008) opined that most girl-children are engaged
in either hawking goods on the street for their parents, and at some
other times, the girl-children were engaged in early marriages as a
result of parental poverty and financial problems where some parents
cannot afford to pay school fees for their many children. In some
families, parents who have many children select the boys and educate
them, thus leaving the girl-children untrained and uneducated. Not only
that, the girl-child has suffered enough discrimination among siblings
and parents, and even the society and this has affected her education
negatively. For instance, in many African traditions and customs, the
girl-child is regarded as inferior to the boy-child, and this has made
many African parents to devote more attention in training the boy-child
than the girl-child.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the impact of girl-child rights on education in missionary secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was used in order to assess the opinions of the respondents using the questionnaire and the sampling technique. A total of 300 (Three Hundred) respondents (made up of 150 males and 150 females) were selected and used in this study as the sample of the study which represented the entire population of the study. Five research questions were raised ... Continue reading---
