Skills Acquisition by Widows’ Children in the Rural Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria
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Skills, widows, levirate, rural areas, NigeriaAbstract
The cluster sampling technique was used to examine the type of and factors affecting skills acquisitions by widows’ children in the rural areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Most widows and their children were denied access to the deceased properties and left uncared for hence many of the widows remained unmarried, some remarried while few were inherited. Women involved in bigamy and polygamous marriages had restricted access to their husbands’ properties irrespective of their status as wives or widows. Skill acquisition was observed to have potentials to alleviating their livelihood poverty. The idea that the widows’ children should acquire skills was primarily conceived by their mothers and relatives while self decision and/or determination as well as mothers’ mentorship accounted for the secondary factors. The skills acquired by males were mostly technical and females vocational skills. Strategies that could enhance and sustain skills acquisition among the children of widows were recommended.
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