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 ABSTRACT  The study investigated the attitudes of parents’ towards girl-child education in Kaduna State as perceived by teachers and school principals.  The population of the study consists of all the school principals and secondary school teachers in Kaduna State. The instrument used in collecting data was questionnaire. Four Null hypotheses were postulated and tested using percentages and standard deviation as descriptive and t-test as inferential statistics to test the opinions ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Research has determined that parental attitude and support has a great deal of influence on the education of the girl child in tertiary institution. Parents are mainly influenced by traditional beliefs regarding the ideal roles of women and girls in the society. Traditionally, the only roles available to women were those of wives and mothers. Women were thus seen as nurturers and ...