In the traditional family setting, the issue of child care, that is treatment and nutrition is only left to women. Only a few men especially in urban areas concern themselves with feeding and treatment of children.
Most men in rural areas spend money on drinking alcohol or to a few who are responsible buy land or construct houses.
Some food stuff that should be added to the. children’s diet like fish, eggs, meat among others require to be purchased. Thus, only mothers who are employed are able to feed their children on a balanced diet.
Thus, it explains why children especially from rural areas are stunted and malnutritione. They are only fed with what their mothers plant on their farms, hence lacking other additional food supplement on their diet.
A similar situation trends in rural areas when it comes to child treatment. At times, some men may not even know whether their children are sick or not. Men pretend to be busy as most of them return home hours later when children have slept.
The issue of child treatment has been left to women whose efforts in most cases only end at government health centers, as they may not have enough money to go to private hospitals for additional treatment.
Men are therefore just partners to their wives by virtue of marriage vows but leave issues of child care to women.
If such tendencies are not addressed, cases of malnutrition and infant mortality will continue to prevail or even increase.
Women in a group feeding their children 
A child accompanied by the mother for treatment 
Women lining up for child treatment 
A mother presenting her child for treatment 
From left to right are children who are victims of malnutrition
Healthy Baby 