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    Parents’ Socio-Economic Status and Girl Child Education in Secondary Schools of Usuk County in Katakwi District
    (Uganda Christian University, 2025-10-15) Teresa Adeko
    The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between Parents’ socio- economic status and girl child education in secondary schools of Usuk County in Katakwi District. The study was guided by three objectives: to assess the extent to which parents contribute to girl child education, to examine the effect of parents’ education level on girl child education and to investigate the influence of parents’ income level on girl child education in secondary schools in Usuk County in Katakwi district. A cross sectional survey design was adopted with qualitative and quantitative approaches. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select respondents comprising head teachers, PTA parents, teachers and students. Questionnaires, focus group discussion and interview were used as data collection methods. Findings of the study indicated that parents greatly contribute to girl child education in Usuk County in Katakwi district and this is through involving girls in home chores and other forms of child labour, domestic violence, some parents believing that girls have less benefit compared to boys, parents providing less or no basic needs that would enable a girl to remain in school and traditional beliefs that girls are for family wealth creation through marrying them off. It was also found out that parents’ education level highly affects girl child education in Usuk County in Katakwi district where by less educated parents have no interest in educating their girl children, they cannot help them with homework, they cannot pay school fees in time and cannot carry out guidance and counselling to their girl children. It was further found out that parents’ income level influences girl child education in Usuk County in Katakwi district. Whereby due to low-income levels, not all parents pay school fees in time, not all parents pay full fees at once every term and not all parents provide the necessary basic needs for their girl children. Basing on the findings of the study, it was recommended that parents should prioritize girl child education since they are equally valuable just like boys. This should be done by the government strengthening the affirmative action and NGOs should step in and give more assistance to girl children like through scholarships, providing sanitary facilities and sensitizing parents about the importance of girl child education. It was also recommended that there is need for awareness campaigns to parents who have low levels of education about the importance of supporting their girl children’s education such that they can pick interest in educating them