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Ability to operate a kitchen is a necessity for any woman, married or not

There is no institution as threatened as marriage. The dilemma is real, each gender lamenting that there is no marriage material left in the field to take home. Women feel that young men lack the values and character to qualify as husbands material while men on the other hand are constantly complaining that the modern crop of girls miss the yardstick of wifehood by a mile. It is a cycle of complaints coming from both quarters and there seems to be no solution in the offing other than looking harder to find some luck in the rubble.

There are some key concerns that revolve around the girl child. First, let us agree that every girl must go to school to liberate herself from patriarchal control in the event that she chooses to settle down in marriage. You see, we cannot rely on a man for things as personal as panty liners and tampons yet still claim that we are wife material.

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