Assessment Of Attitude Of Parents Towards Their Girl-childrenseducation In Bure Woredawest Gojjamethiopia2014 G.c.

Background- Attitudes and preferences regarding female children’s educational attainment arernimportant determinants of parents’ childrearing behavior. Parent’s attitudes are mainlyrninfluenced by traditional beliefs regarding the ideal roles of women and girls in society.rnTraditionally, the only roles available to women were those of wives and mothers. Theserntraditional beliefs have been found to foster negative attitudes which limit family and communityrnsupport for girls’ education. Identification and examination of these attitudes is necessary beforernany decisions can be made on what should and can be done to bring about change.rnObjective –To assess the attitudes of parents towards girl children’s’ education in Bure woreda,rnwest Gojjam, Ethiopia, 2014 E.CrnMethods- A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted to assess parent’s attitude towardsrngirl child education in Bure woreda, west Gojjam, Ethiopia. A total of 369 samples used for thernstudy. The sample selected using simple random sampling and systematic sampling methods.rnThe data was analyzed by correlation and chi square using SPSS version 20 window7. IRB ofrnAAU was review the protocol to ensure full protection of the rights of study subjects. Informedrnoral parental consent was obtained from all subjects, and at least one parent was present duringrnthe data collection. The Study was conducted from November 2013 to June 2014 with the totalrncost of 22,102.5 ETB.rnResult - Out of the total 350 respondents, 174(50.3%) were male. The age of the respondents distributionrnshows that majority {(131 (37.4%)} were in the age grouping of 31-40 years with the mean age 38.75rnyears and standard deviation of 9.315 years. more than three fourth of the participants (76%) had positivernattitude towards girl child education and the remaining 24% had negative attitude. From the totalrnnumber of girl children (603) whose age was 7-18, 515(85%) girls were attending school,rn40(7%) dropping school and the remaining 48(8%) didn’t attending school.rnConclusion and recommendation- This study reveals that most of the respondents’ perceptionrntowards girl-child education was very good with more than half of respondents saying thatrneducating a girl child is important.

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