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UNDERSTANDING THE BABY FACTORY PHENOMENON IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA: A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Chijioke Emmanuel Okafor
Published 28 February 2025
Vol. 12, No. 4 (2024)
pp. 25-34
CC BY 4.0
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    Chijioke Emmanuel Okafor
    Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Rhema University Aba, Abia State, Nigeria
    NG

While baby factories may not be a recent phenomenon in Nigeria, there has been an appreciable increase in the number of cases in recent times. Hardly does any month passes without a media report of discovery of baby factory. Over eighty percent of the cases are in the South eastern part of Nigeria. This has raised the question of why the south eastern part of Nigeria? It is against this background that we carried out this research to ascertain the possible cause(s) of prevalence of baby factories in the south east. This work probed the prevalence of baby factories phenomenon in the South eastern part of Nigerian as having a plausible explanation in the culture of the people. Based on data collected through questionnaire and interviews, the researchers came to the conclusion that, the culture of the people of that part of the country plays a significant role in the prevalence of baby factories more than poverty or any other single variable. We used simple percentage table and the chi square to illustrate the responses of our respondents and the existence of any relationship.

JournalJournal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors
ISSN3065-0542
Volume / IssueVol. 12, No. 4 (2024)
Pages25-34
Published28 February 2025
DOI10.5281/zenodo.14944133
Access Open Access
LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Okafor, C. (2025). UNDERSTANDING THE BABY FACTORY PHENOMENON IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA: A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. Journal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 25-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14944133

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