A Precarious Childhood: Health of the Girl Child

Abstract

At an age when children bubble with the sheer joy of being alive, there are millions of small girls struggling to survive the burdens of poverty, overwork and ill-health in India.

Girls who are forced to endure an entire childhood of extremely poor health. Their physical and emotional well being is at a constant three-fold risk due to their living conditions, the work they must do and the fact that they are female.