The Upbringing and Education of the Girl Child: Challenges of a Millennium Mother

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the upbringing and educational demands of the girl-child and the parenting challenges of the same in the new millennium with a view to making some useful contributions that would be of benefit to the same. Major institutions of education were referred to in drawing attention to the educational needs of the girl-child particularly with a view to more stringent demands of the new millennium. Not forgetting to draw attention to education as a human right, effort was made to suggest some strategies that would help women in general to realize their life potentials and aspirations as mother, wife and career women, or simply as career women when they are single.