ABSTRACT
This project work deals
with the effect of broken homes on the academic performance of students in
College of Education, Ekiadolor Benin City. School of Vocation, School of
Science, School of Arts and social sciences, School of Language all in College
of Education Ekiadolor Benin City. In pursuance of the study, certain effects
which require solution were identified and they are that students from broken
homes suffer a lot of psychological and emotional disturbances, which leads to
academic and social backwardness in schools. Insecurity and unrolling attitudes
lead these students to steal items that do not belongs to them in school, to
actualize this, a specially planned questionnaires was used as the only medium
of data collection., the questions was framed to arouse the respondents
interests on the issues in which responses are elicited so as to make a true
and uninfluenced but sincere choice from the alternatives. 60 questionnaires
were distributed out all were collected back. Owing to the result of finding
the following recommendations were made that parents should build their family
on some foundation of how mutual understanding and good [planning in order to
bring up children who will be useful to themselves and to the society. The
governments should establish a legal backing slating the age at which our
youths should go into marriages to prevent frequent occurrence of
divorce.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1
Background of the study
1.2
Significance of the study
1.3
Purpose of study
1.4
Statement of problem
1.5
Research question
1.6
Limitation of study
1.7
Definition of terms
Chapter Two
Literature review
Chapter Three
3.0 Research
Methodology
3.1 Population
3.2
Sample/sample procedure
3.3
Instrument of data collection
3.4
Validation of the instrument
3.5
Method of data collection
3.6
Method of data analysis
Chapter Four
Presentation and
discussion of results
Discussion of findings
Chapter Five
Conclusion, implication
and recommendations
Implications of findings
Suggestions of findings
Suggestions of further
research
Recommendations
Reference
Questionnaires
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The home is the first and immediate entity of
every child. He or she is born into and regarded as a full member of the home.
By its nature the home is a recognized group of people who are joined together
either by marriage or birth.
According to G.W. Davidson et al (Edo) marriage is the ceremony, act or
contract by which a man a woman who becomes a kind of a agreement on fixed
terms, a bond which is expected to be respected and adhered to by both parties
to the agreement. Hence, it is customary or common to hear the new family can’t
in registries and churches in taking the marriage vow, both the bride and the
bride groom usually promise to live together for better for worse for richer
for poorer, in sickness and in health till death do them part.
This vow is interesting to hear when it is being reacted by couples, but sooner
or later, one would hear that such a marriage has hit the rock for reasons as
numerous as there is broken marriage. Naturally, the ultimate aim of any
marriage is the bearing of children which regarded as a divine blessing from
God. To appreciate Gods kind gestures both parents and expected to adequately
take care of and bring up such children faithfully nature provides the child
through the union of two people of the opposite sex the husband and wife. Each
normally perform functions that the other can not take on so well and the two
joining in functions that can be done better when together,
A woman maybe able to teach the daughters to be as femininely charming as she
is but her sons need a man in their life. A boy does not learn to be a man in
their life. A boy does not learn to be a man from his mother rather does a girl
learns the principles of woman hood from her father. So it should be born in
mind that children require both genders for their emotional psychological and
social development. Parents should realize that they are their children is
“Idols” who they look up to.
Any thoughtful parent should be able to recognize the tragedy broken home or
marriage brings to the children one of the evil consequences of broken home or
marriage in most cases, is that the children are deprived of the influence of
other parents since they are in the custody of one parents just as plants must
have both sunshine and rain for their growth and the productivity, so also the
children require both masculine and feminine components in their development in
life. The absence of such a balance may later cause all kind of personality and
academic distresses in the children
There fore it is pertinent to state here that a decision break up a marriage or
home is a risk in itself and detrimental to the academic performance of the
children whether it is initiated by the woman or man it is therefore necessary
for couples who are contemplating divorce to ask themselves these questions.
Why much there by a divorce? Why taking this step? What effect is to going to
have on our children? In order to curtail the risk of broken home, Couples
intending to separate must seek genuine answers to these questions because the
consequences of broken home can be grievous for the couples, their children,
families indeed, the entire society. Excellence is attributed to some
prevailing factors; it is worth while therefore to carryout some useful
researches in order to unveil the negative effects of broken homes or marriage
have on the academic performance of students with particular reference to
college of education Ekiadolor.
1.2 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
This project is intended or meant to discuss the effect of broken home on the
academic performance of students with a view to proffer solution to these ugly
effects. The project will undoubtedly serve as a reliable means through which
in youths and the entire society can be educated on the hazard of broken home
on the performance on students. It is also the belief of the researcher that
the findings of this research study will be great benefit to the society in
various ways because when the effects of broken homes on the academic performance
of the children are known the society will then be in better position to
formulate ways and means of solving the problem of divorce, broken homes so as
to reduce its effects.
Another significant aspect of the research study is that it emphasizes the idea
of families having to live together, thereby helping to minimize the rate of
broken homes in the society. Also if the results of the research study are made
available and explained to the society, it is hoped that there will be a drastic
reduction in the rate of broken homes in the society. If the findings of this
project are made available to the family planning units, it will help in no
mean way in education both the married and the unmarried and through them, help
to stabilize the family.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE
STUDY:
The purpose of this research is to trace the effects of broken homes on the
academic performance of students with particular reference to college of
education Ekiadolor. It is therefore the researches beliefs that the facts that
will contained in this project will help in no mean way to vividly bring to
limelight the negative effects of broken home on the academic performance of
students in college of education Ekiadolor with a view of proffering solution
to this ugly situation, this research will also find out the factors
responsible for this friend which has become rampant in our society
1.4 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The academic performance of students from broken home has been falling. This is
further compounded with the influence of European culture where exposure to
internet information technology, internet with its attendant is nothing to be
compared with that of social cultural, values juxtaposes to African marriage
values and educational needs. It is hoped that the research findings would go a
long way in solving the problem of broken marriages/ homes and also help to
guide the society towards maintaining and sustaining better and prosperous
united marriages in order to help the students each in their academic careers.
Nowadays a day hardly passes without a wedding being solemnized in Oredo local
government area. The marriages are either solemnized in the churches, the
mosques or at home according to the native and customs and the partners involved
usually come together for various and diverse reasons. The problem, which have
been found to be associated with broken homes, have also attracted to the
attention of many sociologist and other scholars. They are of the opinion that
the two parent’s family system is the best the child rearing environment. The
same school of thought also says that living with one parent is the best and
less harmful to children.
The problem arising from what has been said and the effect on broken homes is:
1. how is identity the
various causes of divorce among couples and how best to work towards minimizing
the incidence of divorce because of it affect on the children and the society
2. how to know the
relationship between broken homes could be helped in their children school
learning, either by the teacher or the government so that they can become
useful citizen
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What are the factors
responsible for broken home?
2. What are the effects
of broken home on the family and society?
3. What effects does
broken home have on the academic performance of students in Ekiadolor?
4. What are the efforts
of the society and govvermnment to curb the menace of broken home?
5. What are the solutions
to the problem of broken marriages/home?
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
FAMILY: the word family
is used in this work to mean a group of person and children who living in one
house. In other words family is the union of a husband, wife and the children,
(if only) biologically related group, grand parents, and children and relations
living in a household, the group that some one grows up in, the group people
spend most of their time e.t.c.
BROKEN HOMES: the term
broken homes as used here is a home from which one of the parents is absent by
reason of death, desertion, separation or divorce.
LEARNING: learning is to
mean the behaviour change in the students which is brought about by experiences
and usually by an agent external to the students
ENVIRONMENT: this term
refers physical, social and cultural, other than hereditary influences, in the
development of the child and which can be conducive or un-conducive, favorable
or unfavorable.
DEVELOPMENT: development
as used here means the physical and mental growth of the
students
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0401 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 56 pages |
Methodology | Null |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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