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"Girls will grow up to be like their mothers and raise their daughters in a similar fashion, thereby continuing the cycle of homebound girls."
Amman, Jordan- 2013. The Information and Research Center - King Hussein Foundation (IRCKHF) in collaboration with Save the Children International is honored to address yet another sensitive topic in Jordan, homebound girls. The study was initiated as a result of the Child Labor Survey conducted in 2007 by The International Labor Organization, in conjunction with the Department of Statistics. The results of the study were released in a 2009 report entitled Working Children in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. According to the study, 62.4% of children between the ages of 6-17 were strictly involved with the school, while 31.77% of children were attending school in addition to performing unpaid household services. The proportion of children ages 6-17 who engaged in economic activity alone was less than 0.7% and that of children from the same age bracket engaged solely in household work was 2.04% with the majority of them being girls. IRCKHF’s study of "Homebound Girls in Jordan" sheds the light on homebound girls in the areas of Mafraq, Marka, Ma'an and Zarqa, unfolding the reasons that led to their confinement and identifying possible interventions to end the cycle. It reveals the situation of girls under the age of eighteen who withdrew, or are withdrawn, from school, which spend their days as domestic laborers in their house, deprived of education and social development. Conducted in 2012-2013, the research is a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 46 homebound girls and 40 mothers in the four locations in Jordan. The full report is available on HAQQI, and discloses testimonies of confined girls and their mothers.