CAUSES AND PROBLEMS OF DIVORCE AND ITS EFFECT ON CHILD EDUCATION IN SELECTED SCHOOLS IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE
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CAUSES
AND PROBLEMS OF DIVORCE AND ITS EFFECT ON CHILD EDUCATION IN SELECTED SCHOOLS
IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE
ABSTRACT
This
project deals with the causes and problems of divorce and its effects on the
child’s education in some selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government
Area, Uwelu Secondary School, Egor Secondary School, Useh Secondary School,
Evbarekhe Secondary School, in Ego Local Government Area of Edo State. The
purpose of this study is to identify the causes and problems of divorces and
the effects on the performance of children in secondary schools. In pursuance
of the study, certain problems which require solution were identified and they
are:
(i)
Students from broken homes suffer a lot of psychological and emotional
problems.
(ii)
Insecurity and unruly attitude of step-parents of these students lead them to
steal items that does not belong to them in school.
Questionnaires
were circulated among 120 respondents, a hundred were retrieved and their
responses were analyzed by the simple percentage techniques owing to the result
of finding, the following recommendations were made. Parents should build their
family on sound foundation of love, mutual understanding and good planning in
order to bring up children who will be useful to themselves and to the society
at large.
TABLE
OF CONTENT
Chapter
one: introduction
Background to study
Statement of problems
Purpose of study
Significance of study
Research questions
Scope of study
Limitation of study
Definition of terms
Chapter
two: Literature review
Scientific approach
Courtship
Family organization
Educational
background
Theoretical basis of
the causes of divorce
Divorce and the
future of the family
Chapter
three: methodology
Source of data
Population and sample
Sampling techniques
Instrument for
collecting data
Validation of data
Reliability of the
instrument
Method of data
collection
Data analysis
techniques
Chapter
four
Analysis of data
Discussion
Chapter
five
Summary, findings,
recommendations and conclusions
Findings
Recommendation
Conclusion
REFERENCE
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF
THE STUDY
Marriage of a youth
in ancient society was parts of the responsibilities of his parents. The young
man had no choices and no say. He accepted his wife his joy and thanks. In some
cases, a wife was married for him at a time he could certainly not afford to
keep a wife all maintenance was borne by the parents. In the past marriage were
a matter within the clan or within clan’s and its environs parents were not
anxious to see their suns getting married to girls from distant places or other
tribes.
Marriages
arranged by parents on the basis of family friendship ties rarely broke up in
the past. Divorce in the ancient times was also very rate, because of penalties
of proven infidelity and fear of offending elders of both families in Nigerian,
there are four clearly defined types of marriage we have the church or
statutory marriage those performed at the mosques and marriage contracted
according to native law and customs of any ethnic group. The purpose of
marriage is to have children and establish a family. When these children
eventually arrive, they are regarded as blessing from God and are social and
economic assets to their parents. The family, this time needs a home to live in
and feel secured. Thus, home is a place where a family lives and also a place
where one secures love. It is a place which provides all individual needed in
order to fit into the society successfully. A home provides for food, physical,
mental, psychological and spiritual; development of its members. A home is
built on love and mutual understanding and good planning is able to meet its
goals in a home where love and understanding are lacking, such a home is bound
to crack and fissure in all direction. This broken homes are homes or families
where either the father or the mother has ceased to be further member of such a
home of family through divorce, desertion to mention but a few.
Divorce
therefore can be defined to be personal misfortune for either of the spouse ion
any society but it is a universal escape for the inevitable tension is
marriage. Divorce as a matter of fact breaks the bonds, which once united two
individual and their family. Marriage is a big step in life, in which a person
plans as a career or even business, certainly you either fail or succeed. This
bond dissolution can occur as a result of extra marital practices by either of
the partners, early marriage, a solution where either of the spouses is not
ripe enough for marriage before getting married.
The
proper upbringing of children is a more important objective of the family than
the happiness of the parents. This is because the early of child life are the
formation of personality and these are the years that are spent mainly in
association with parent’s siblings and the family. The home as the child’s immediate
environment forms the basis for personality development, which accompanies the
individual throughout life. As a result of divorce or broken home children
fails to develop ties to one or few important person in the family and when
these ties are disrupted, children are taught at school impaired in developing
close relationship in adulthood. They feel better and carryover critically as a
happy person and at the same time cannot concentrate on anything taught at
school. When a mother is out of a home, leaving the children under charity and
mercy of step-mother, these children are prone to many problems such as poor
feeding, negligence not inspired to study or learn, diseases and sicknesses,
emotional disturbance (fear, insecurity) as such they are not likely to perform
up to expectation in school. For a marriage to be successful there is the need
for the couples to be in harmony-mentally, physically, and spiritually. In
other words, the husband and the wife must have a common goal and each has to
contribute his or her own quota towards its fulfillment and the key ward should
be love.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
There
are many problems with divorce or broken homes which at the long run reflect on
the performance of children in schools. Some of these problems are;
i.
Meeting of a gap on the children’s existence because there is no adult to guide
and direct their behavior and desires as children learn by imitation.
ii.
There is increase in domestic work and redistribution of household chores,
which leaves the children with little or no time for their studies
iii.
Also, it has been observed that children from broken homes suffer some other
problems such as non-provision of some basic material needs like non-provision
of some basic materials needs like food, clothing and learning material
iv.
In security, step parent do not show much love and affection to their step
children. Thus, these children suffer from mental retardation, personality
improvement and are always miserable. They show behavioral responses like
lying, stealing, building and playing truant in school.
In
view of this, the researcher is forced to wonder whether extra-relationship and
financial problem could lead to broken home, and if broken homes, are they
causes of decrease in the performance of children in schools. In that, a closer
look at the turn out of secondary school graduates these days reveals a lot of
half-cooked, half-boiled and half-baked scholars academically, socially and
otherwise.
PURPOSE OF STUDY
The
researcher is interested in the study of causes, problems and effects of
divorce or broken homes in the performances of children in schools because of
the present decrease children’s performance in schools which is giving much
concern to most Nigerians as to where we are heading to. In view of this, this
study is geared towards identifying the causes and problem of broken homes and
the effects on the performance of children in some selected secondary schools
in Egor local government area. Also, to educated married couples and the
general public of the consequences of divorce and or broken homes on the
children and to encourage them to live harmoniously in order to bring up
children who will successfully fit into the society and become useful to
themselves and finally make necessary recommendations.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
1.
Do couples realize the causes of problems in marriage which lead to divorce?
2.
Are couples aware of problems associated with divorce as it affect their
offspring and the society?
3.
Does psychological and emotional disturbances lead to academic and social
backwardness in schools?
4.
Does insecurity and unruly attitude of step mothers to students of broken homes
lead them to steal at school?
5.
Does lack of encouragement on the part of step parents contribute to academic
backwardness of students?
6.
Do children from broken homes opportune to plan their future career with their
sponsor?
SIGNIFICANCE OF
STUDY
It is hoped that findings from this study will enrich programmes of teaching
social studies. The researcher is interested in the study of effect of divorce
on the performance of children in schools because whatever happens in the home
has a bearing in the academic performance of children. It is necessary to
educate the young stars who are yet unmarried about the problems and causes of
divorce and their consequences on the children. It will also make young stars
to decimate their parents. Findings from this study will aid children from
parent who have being thought divorce in the understanding of problem experienced
by their parents and give them assurance about their future.
DEFINITION OF
TERMS
Family: A group of persons, two or more
related by blood, marriage or adoption residing together; all such persons are
considered as members of one family
Marriage: Union of man woman as husband and
wife.
Couple: Two persons seen together as husband
and wife.
Divorce: Put an end to a marriage by law.
Infidelity:
Disloyalty or unfaithfulness of husband or wife sexually outside matrimonial
homes.
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