"Girl Child "is a painting that deals with a practice condoned in our culture, one that neglected the young girl while the boy child was allowed to attain the highest level of education. It was believed that the boy child would carry on the name and filter back what his parents had invested in him, in other words, he would be able to take care of his parents in their old age. Since the female child would be married, her husband would rule over her. Then her husband's interest and his family would dominate. Thus, the boy child was regarded as a worthwhile investment. These attitudes are still in existence in the rural areas where poor folks cannot send all their children to school .The girl child is always sacrificed. She will be pulled out of school, even if she is intelligent, and the boy will go on to achieve better things. In this painting I am advocating for the change in attitudes, beliefs. Give the girl a chance so she can prove herself! After all, what type of man is going to marry her if she is worth nothing, if she is uneducated? There was always been a belief in my country that a girl child wouldn't make it to school anyway because she would just fall pregnant so, therefore, why even educate her. In my painting, the male figure in the background is her obstacle - it might be a boyfriend, or any boy interested in her. My hope is that she will concentrate on her studies until she is done before she falls into the hands of any man; that way she will have proven herself.