Condition and survival of girl children in Nigeria and the preferential treatment of boy children. Girls are duscriminated against in Nigeria in access to educational opportunity, food and nutrition. Girls career a heavy burden of farm work and house chores. Girls are married off at early age, which interfares with their education or acquisition skills needed for survival. Belief must changed about the value of girl children. Rapid economic development is dependent upon elimination of gender of bias. Female education serve as an investment that will help facilitate the achievement of family planning objectives and the production of healthier children. Poor female nutrition contribute to greater vulnerability to disease and to poor physical and mental development. It is recommended that illegal child labor be abolished. Early marriage should be outlawed and parents should be educated about the benefit of later marriage. A national children 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 statistic on girl child survival and other socioeconomic factors. Parents have an important roles to fulfill in helping female child achieve the basic necessities of survival and development and care. Teachers have an important roles to play in teaching about sex education, drug education, family planning and AIDS. Women’s group have an important roles to play in focusing attention on various problems confronting girl children.
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