Odebiyi A I
Child Care Health Dev. 1985 Sep-Oct;11(5):325-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1985.tb00473.x.
This study attempts to highlight the relationship between the educational status of mothers in Ile-Ife and their child-rearing practices. It was observed that the educated mothers in good jobs spent less time at home with the children than the illiterates who have their children with them at the farms and in the market places. Thus, a higher proportion of the educated mothers admitted to using more bottle feeding than breast feeding, and forced hand-feeding which was practised by all the illiterate women interviewed. Only one educated woman still practices female circumcision. Of interest in the study is the fact that the children of the different categories of women are exposed to different types of health hazards; while the children of the educated suffer neglect and are deprived of the advantages of breast feeding, the children of the illiterate suffer from undue exposure to unhygienic conditions in the farms and market places and from the implications of forced hand-feeding and female circumcision.
本研究旨在突出伊费地区母亲的教育状况与其育儿方式之间的关系。据观察，有稳定工作的受过教育的母亲与孩子在家相处的时间比那些在农场和市场带着孩子的文盲母亲要少。因此，较高比例的受过教育的母亲承认更多地使用奶瓶喂养而非母乳喂养，而所有接受采访的文盲女性都采用强迫手喂的方式。只有一位受过教育的女性仍实行女性割礼。该研究中有趣的一点是，不同类型女性的孩子面临不同类型的健康风险；受过教育的母亲的孩子受到忽视，被剥夺了母乳喂养的益处，而文盲母亲的孩子则过度暴露于农场和市场不卫生的环境中，还要承受强迫手喂和女性割礼带来的影响。
