Girl Children’s Nigeria: Vulnerability And Economic Recession In A Case Study of Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State, Nigeria.

Girls are discriminated against in Nigeria in access to educational opportunity, food and nutrition. Girls carry the burden of housework, Anyanwu. (1995) The girl child is vulnerable in that she is susceptible to attack from many angles, in the home, school, church, among groups, anywhere at all. With negative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth recorded for the fifth consecutive quarters. Nigeria's economy is mired in recession, according to newly published data by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). May 23, 2017. Due to the economic recession, inflation and unemployment have been on the increase, and as a result, some parents send their girl children as domestic servants either to relatives or non-relatives. Calabar, due to its metropolitan stand, attracts a lot of people from rural areas to come and seek “better lives", and parents give out their girls as domestic servants due to hardship. The population of the study was adolescents between the ages of I (hears to 20years.