IMPACT OF SINGLE PARENTING AND ITS EFFECT ON CHILD EDUCATION IN SELECTED SCHOOLS IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE
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IMPACT OF SINGLE
PARENTING 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 single parenting 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
Single parenting 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.
Single parenting 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.
Single parenting
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. Single parenting 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 single parenting 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 single parenting 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 single parenting 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 single parenting 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 single parenting 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 single
parenting 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 single parenting 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 single parenting 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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