PARENTS' PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF EARLY MARRIAGE ON GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN GUSAU METROPOLIS AREA OF ZAMFARA STATE
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2023-11-01
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Education is the foundation for economic and social development of any
country. Thus, education to all children either male or female is
important. Early marriage is a global concept that affects the educational
and social development as well as health, mental, and physical wellbeing
of individual. Parental influence is seen to have a greater impact on early
child marriage. Many parents justify the denial of girls' right to education,
as marrying off their daughters as early as possible to prevent them from
becoming sexually active before marriage, and not to bring dishonor to the
family and community. This study examined the parents' perceived
influence of early marriage on girl-child education in Gusau Metropolis,
Zamfara State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this
study. The population of this study comprised all parents of public
primary school pupils in Gusau metropolis of Zamfara state. Simple
random sampling technique was used to select 360 parents of primary six
pupils in Gusau metropolis Zamfara State. One research question was
raised, and three hypotheses were formulated. The research instrument
that was used to obtain data from the respondents was a questionnaire
titled' Questionnaire on Parents' Influence of Early Marriage on Girl Child Education (QPIEMGCE) and the instrument was subjected to face
and content validity by four lecturers in the department of Early Childhood and Primary Education and the reliability coefficient (r=0.75)
was obtained using test-retest method. Data obtained from respondents were analyzed using frequency count and mean for research question
while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze hypotheses one
and two, while hypothesis three was tested using t-test all at 0.05 level of
significance. Findings among others showed there was no significant
difference in parents' perception of the influence of early marriage on girl child education based on socio-economic status of parents' income (F=
1.310; P > 0.05). It was concluded that parents' perception on early
marriage has positive effect on girl-child education in Gusau metropolis. It
was recommended that sensitization should be carried out regularly to
educate parents on the need to educate the girl-child, also, government
should regularly organize seminar to educate parents and pupils on the
importance of girl-child education.