The Agony of The Girl Child ,It would be ironical for one to ask the question; Who is the girl child? Of course our society today would jump into answering that she is that little female child found in the family whose opinion doesn’t count, so sending her to school holds no profit for the family.

The family’s wealth must not be wasted, another fellow would say. Looking into our society with a bare eye, one would see; that she’s that child who start her slavery adventure from her father’s house and ends it in her husband’s where she’s of course the horse, the elephant and the ant.

To these dehumaning ways which I fear the society see these precious Ones– the girl child, is what every ink of this writing stand against. It’s understandable that the people of the past(the dark times) have made their mistakes in misunderstanding the

gift in the girl child thereby paying less, and a whole less attention to investing in these ones, but to see such blind understanding being displayed in our society in the 21st Century, this alone has all it takes to call tears from one’s eyes.

The girl child is not a stock that should be laughed at, as one can not exhaust the goodness that can reach a family or society through her. The girl child is a brand of the human family whose heart overflows with a lot of care and empathy.

But right there in her father’s house the girl child has already been laden with the active role of helping and caring for the family. She sees to taking good care of her siblings(if she has one) and if not she reduces her father’s and mother’s stress...Source https://www.helpersfoundation.org/the-agony-of-the-girl-child/