THE SOCIO – ECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out mainly to bring out the socio – economic
implications of divorce on children academic performances. A case study of
Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State.
Information were
collected through the use of questionnaire which was administered and analyzed
with the use of frequency and mean.
The study covered a
selected schools of Idanre Local Government Area from which correspondents are
from different background and of different view of the research topic. From the
analysis of the data collected, it was discover that the marital stability of
parent i.e. broken or intact home has a great implication on child academic
performances either in primary, secondary or tertiary institutions.
The study revealed that
children academic performance depends on many variables but home takes target
percentage of all variables. Thus, the research offers different
recommendations on how the home can be stabilize and thereafter contribute positively
on children academic performances.
Among the recommendation are:
·
Married
couples should try to be tolerant of one another.
·
Extended
families should try as much as possible to abstain from interfere in to
couple’s affairs.
·
The
society should try to moderate it demands and its embedded sexual
discrimination which is usually against women.
·
Single
parents should try as much as possible to encourage their children and provide
opportunity for more interactions for their words by showing care to them.
·
Government
should organize mass campaign on effect of single parent especially when it is
through divorce and establish marital counseling.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study
Statement of the problem
Objective of the study
Significance of the study
Scope of the study
Research Question
Limitation of the study
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Introduction
Concepts of Marriage and Divorce
Causes of Divorce
Effects of Divorce on Children
Development
Divorce and Disciplinary level of
child
Empirical Review
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
Introduction
Design of the study
Population of the study
Instrumentation
Data Analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF
RESULTS
Preamble
Discussion of Findings
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
Summary
Conclusion
Implication of the study
Recommendation
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study
Marriage according to Oxford
Learner’s Dictionary is a legal relationship between a man and a woman. A successful marriage that bring about
children is what many people are praying to have in society today.
However, the issue of divorce is now
a worldwide phenomenon and it always have adverse effects on general well being
of any child that falls victim under this situation. Marriage is supposed to
bring harmony between husband, wife and children. According to Holy Bible in
Genesis chapter 2 vs 24 says, “a man shall leave his fathers house and leave to
a woman and they shall no longer be two but one”. When there is separation
between the man and the woman it is called divorce. Children who find
themselves in such situation often lack parental love, care and attention which
are very important factors needed for the children up bringing. In Nigeria, as in
most of other countries, of the world a good number of children are brought up
by a single parent. Divorce occurs when one of the couples found the other
incompatible to live with, that is become bored of managing or persevere under
hardship and decides to leave home for other either on mutual agreement or
through fighting, or runs away from home without the partner knowing his where
about.
Therefore, this constitutes long time
deprivation to the child whose total personality development should be supported
by both parents. The effects of these separation has a socio –economic
implications on the child and society at large. Whatever may be the cause of
the divorce it is the child who often pay the price. Many times the child in
this problem will feel lonely and loss of self confidence when faced with the slightest
difficult in life. Also children living with a single parent household have to
content with negative stereotype incessant hatful remarks made by insensitive
adults. Also divorce brings about misname in children, juvenile deliguency, bullying,
cheating, alcoholism, sex abuse, child abuse, smoking and many other deviant
behaviour become the other of the day.
Accordingly, family has effects and
influences on the social placement of the offspring in the society since there
is usually a tendency for most societies to link people with the affinity ties
to their nuclear family. The implication of this is that whatever one becomes
in life has a positive correction with one’s family socio – economic status in
society.
According to Robert Blested (1964) of
all groups that affect the lives of individual in society, none touches the
individual so intimately as dies the family from the moment of birth to the
moment of death.
Therefore, the type of child rearing
practice employed by parents will have an impact on the entire life of the
child in general and particular on his or her academic performances. In homes
where parents live together the kind of relationship between the mother and the
father also affect the academic performances of the child which could be
positive or negative. Wiseman (1973), argues that it is the parents attitudes
that rather affects the level of the children’s cognitive achievement.
Also the level of educational
achievement of parents, the kind intellectual environment, the home provides,
the socio – economic status of the parents the types of family the child comes
from whether divorce or not, the cardinal position of the child are variables
that affects or influence the emotional, cognitive and psychomotor development
of the child which also affects academic performances with the view to offer
solution to them.
Statement of the Problem
Generally,
it has been observed that the academic performances of children either in
primary, secondary and tertiary institution has fallen below expectation. Among
the factors that have been found out to be responsible for his trend is broken
homes. That is when the child is brought up by one of the two parents the
situation has brought its deserve for advanced technology, improve in
agriculture, good health service, the school students must have stable and good
home to improve success in examination and increase drastically their low
academic performance.
Therefore,
his study is designed on children academic economic implications of divorce on
children academic performance in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State.
Objectives of the Study
The
main objective of the study is to examine the socio – economic implications of
divorce on children academic performances in Ondo State
using Idanre Local Government Area as a case study. This study will offer
solution to the problems being encountered by the products of divorce homes.
Specifically
the study seek to;
i)
Identify
reasons for divorce among couples in Idanre Local Government Area.
ii)
Examine
the effect of divorce on children academic performance.
iii)
Examine
the effect of marriage in the society.
iv)
Suggest
ways of reducing the incidence of broken homes in our society.
Significance of the Study
It is hoped that his study would
reveal to the society the socio – economic implications of divorce on children
academic performance. Also such problems that usually cause a lead to broken
homes will be detected and know the ways to reduce or curb the menace divorce
in our society.
Scope of the Study
This study covered only Idanre Local
Government Area of Ondo State. By the size and the heterogenetic in terms of
population the Local Government Area is good representative of the entire state,
that is what affect family life in the Local Government equally in other area
of the state.
Research Question
The following research questions were
raised and it is hope that the answers to these questions will be useful in the
course of the study.
i)
What
are the courses of divorce?
ii)
Does
divorce happen mostly among illiterate or literate?
iii)
What
are possible problems that divorce can caused on children?
iv)
In
what areas of life can children from broken home be affected, cognitive?
Psychomotor? Emotional?
v)
How
can divorce affect children academic performance?
Limitation of the Study
This study covers only Idanre Local
Government Area of Ondo State. As a result of the geographical area of limited
time and financial constraints a larger geographical are of Idanre Local
Government Area could not be involved in the study.
