JSS3 First Term Social Studies Lesson Note – Harmful Traditional Practices

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WEEK FOUR

HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

Harmful traditional practices are traditional and psychological distresses and damages on individual.  The distresses include fear, emotional, pain, stigma, death etc.

TYPES OF HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

• Female circumcision
• Slavery
• Child marriage
• Widowhood
• Reference for male child
• Violence against women

1. Female Circumcision: it can also be known as female genital mutilation.  It involves the painful removal of sensitive female genital organs. It is mostly performed on infant.  This is being practiced in many communities in Nigeria to prevent the girl from being promiscuous
2. Slavery: This is a slate of being subjected to all forms of hardship, suffering and violence without any right to resist or fight back in any form.
3. Child marriage: This is a practice in which female children are given out in marriage at their teenage years.  This is mostly practices by the Hausa.

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