THE EFFECT OF STREET HAWKING AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS
ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on the effect of street hawking among teenage girls using residence of Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State as case study. To achieve this 2 research hypothesis were formulated. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of the entire 200 hundred residence of Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. In determining the sample size, the researcher adopted the Taro Yamani formula which then used to selected 133 respondents.
A total of 133 questionnaires were distributed and all were received and validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables and percentage. The result of the findings reveals that; there is an origin and development of street hawking in Nigeria and street hawking in Nigeria has social, political and economical effects in the nation.
Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that; there should be an establishment of free education in order to fight against illiteracy, proper sex education of female so that they will have knowledge of it and the social ills being experienced will be reduced, Government should organize enlightenment campaign to educate the people more on the causes of child abuse and its consequences for the welfare of the society, the unemployed youths should be given some regular allowances to reduce the high rate of poverty in the society.
Legislation could pass a bill whereby female are given opportunity to bring to the notice of the government maltreatment meted to them by either parent or guardians and Government should make responsible financial and fiscal policies necessary for helping female and should make child abuse a criminal offence under Nigerian constitution and enforcement mechanism for punishing offenders. Voluntary donations from wealthy individuals and other private organizations at the state and national levels should be encouraged for the welfare of the female.