{"id":6624,"date":"2012-10-11T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=6624"},"modified":"2012-10-13T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T23:11:48","slug":"%d5%b4%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%bb%d5%ab%d5%af-%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a5%d5%ad%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a8-%d5%a9%d5%be%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%b6-%d5%a5%d5%b6-%d5%ad%d5%b8%d5%bd%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%b4%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%bb%d5%ab%d5%af-%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a5%d5%ad%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a8-%d5%a9%d5%be%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%b6-%d5%a5%d5%b6-%d5%ad%d5%b8%d5%bd%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Girl Children: factsheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/children1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>There are around 422.000 girl children (0-18) living in Armenia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two out of five girl children (42.8%) live in poverty, and almost four out of hundred (3.7%) live in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Armenia, families preferring a girl child are six times less than families preferring a boy child.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After birth, girls are treated equally and provided with equal care as boys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On average each year Armenia loses around 1400 girls because of prenatal sex selection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is already a surplus of 45.000 boys (0-18) in the countryi, and the tendency continues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, 20287 girls and 23160 boys were born setting a sex-at-birth ratio of 100 girls to 114 boys, while the normal ratio would have been 100 girls\/102-106 boys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most popular names given to newborn girls in Armenia are Maneh, Milena, and Elen (2011):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our Girls When They Grow Up:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Study (60 per cent of people with higher education in Armenia are women).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get married at the average age of 24.6 (2010).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have 1-2 children on average (two women have three children on average) (2010).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Try to find their place (70 per cent of officially registered unemployed in Armenia are women).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live on average up to 77 years old \u2013 seven years more than men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: <strong>UNFPA-Armenia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; There are around 422.000 girl children (0-18) living in Armenia. &nbsp; Two out of five girl children (42.8%) live in poverty, and almost four out of hundred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-99"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}