Impact of Girl Child Early Marriage on the Level of Divorce Among Some Northerners in Kano State, Nigeria.
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2018
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Anyama, S. C.
Mohammed, T. A.
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Abstract
The study examined the impact of girl-child early marriage on the level of divorce among some Northerners
in Kano State, Nigeria. Two research hypotheses guided the study. The study was limited to underaged
married women from four local government areas of Kano State namely Nasarawa, Dawakin Tofa, Sumaila
and Tali, Descriptive survey research design was used in the study. Two hundred (200) underaged married
women were sampled using simple random sampling technique. A 20 item Researcher constructed
questionnaire titled Impaci of Early Marriage on Level of Divorce Questionnaire (IEMID@) was used for
data collection. The questionnaire has a reliability coefficient of 0.76. The data collected were analysed
using test statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the analysis showed that there is a
significant impact of girl-child early marriage on the level of divorce and there is a significant impact of
maturity on the level of divorce among some northerners. Counselling implications based on the findings
were discussed among them is that counsellors should campaign against girl-child early marriage by
creating awareness about negative impact of girl-child early marriage. Based on these findings, the study
recommends among others that people from northern states should be counselled on the dangers of girl-child
early marriage and their impact on level of divorce. Again, parents should be encouraged to send their girl-
child to school because education is the key.
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scholarly article
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Girl-Child , Early marriage , Northerners , Divorce , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
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Anyama, S.C. & Mohammed, T. A. (2018a). Impact of Girl Child Early Marriage on the Level of Divorce Among Some Northerners in Kano State, Nigeria. International Journal of Educational Research. 5(1) 138-146. Nigeria.