THE EFFECT OF SINGLE PARENTING CHILD UPBRINGING ON SCHOOL CHILDREN: CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED INDIVIDUALS IN IKAOKHA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

This research was undertaken with a view to assessing the causes and effect of single parenting child upbringing in Ika Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State . Several factors were identified as responsible for the causes of single parenting child upbringing. Amongst these factors are; rape, crime, divorce, death, distance transfer of a parent, imprisonment etc. a questionnaire approach was used to obtain data from selected individuals in Ika Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State . These questions were subjected to analyze based on the hypotheses drawn from the questionnaire. The result of the analysis revealed that rape crime is mostly responsible for a single parent, bringing up children in a way that, it can easily be noticed that the single parents is financially, emotionally and psychologically drained. Therefore, the government, non-government agencies and parents, should put their hands on deck to promulgate policies that will eradicate the issue of rape in the society, and also watch that single parenting upbringing walk out of the society.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Nurturing and upbringing of a child by parents in the society is a reality, but the bringing up of a child by a single parent has become a practice, which is increasing in the modern society. The issue of single parenting is a sensitive issue that the upbringing of a child should be the responsibility of conventional parent. In this content, bringing up of a child by a single parent under possible conditions and challenges that raising a child entails, the belief of the society over a well cultured and responsible child to be from a conventional family is not in doubt.

This is because, the raising up or upbringing of a child by a single parent could result to a well cultured and responsible child in the society in his or her own way, as other children from conventional home do (Yackley, 2012). In recent times, there has been a drastic increased in single parenting upbringing of children. A total of 56% is recorded by the result of the census done in USA recent study survey 5 shows that conventional upbringing of children has been lost to single parent upbringing of children. In contemporary times, single parent family are a growing trend in the society, today facing challenges and difficulties as well as having too much responsibilities to care for. The fact remains that conventional parent upbringing of children would yield better result when compared to single parenting upbringing. Single parents child upbringing can make children have lesser opportunity of becoming what they really want to make out of themselves, in the sense that single parents care is not always able to meet up to the child’s demand needs and want (Uwubamwen, 2012).

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The major problem of this study is to examine the possible effect of single parenting child upbringing on children in Ika Local Government Area in a selected manner. The problem is concerned with the single parent family encountering difficulties in one way or the other like, the issue of a single parent upbringing of a child who become unproductive and useless to the society, because of the inadequate attention the child never gained from the single parent. The problem ascertains is that there is decline in conventional child upbringing of children in Ika Local Government Area. A survey of this problem formed the basis of the study.