Paragraph Nine Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters becausethey do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girlsgrow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus s

Paragraph Nine Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters becausethey do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girlsgrow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework whiletheir brothers are sent to school. 44. Girls are n__________in poor countries.

neglected/ nobody