Where should the girl child be given a chance next?
Girls in the majority of developing countries are still not given the same chance for education as their brothers. This denies them the potential of a productive career, and leaves them only with one choice in life, a reproductive career, and exposes them to tyranny of excessive childbearing. Education empowers. Uneducated girls are left powerless, and powerlessness of women is a serious health hazard. The girl child now becomes an adolescent. What chance should be given, and what chances is she still denied? The girl adolescent should be empowered to say NO to unwanted sex and to say NO to forced early marriage. And when she has sex, she needs to be given the chance to protect herself from infections, sexually transmitted from her intimate partner, including HIV infection. And she needs also to be empowered to regulate and control her fertility. And when she becomes a mother too early, literally a child giving birth to a child, she needs to be given the chance of the extra medical car
