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Child abuse in Africa: Nigeria as focus
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Abstract
Ebigbo through the example of Nigeria illustrates the sheer magnitude of the problem of child abuse and neglect in Africa. The traditional farming and trading Nigerian society, impacted by economic and political misery, cultural conflict, unemployment, illiteracy, and urban drift, is leading to exploited, uneducated, abused, malnourished children. Economic misery hits the children and women the hardest, producing broken marriages and homes. Children from such homes are subject...
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