THE EFFECT OF THE ORPHANAGE HOME ON THE CHILD PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

THE EFFECT OF THE ORPHANAGE HOME ON THE CHILD PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

ABSTRACT

Children brought up in the orphanage home cannot cope effectively with the outside world, this display in their dispositions because most of them tend to be introverts and always want to keep to themselves in few causes they turn out to be backward in speed and verbal intelligence. Children who grew up in the orphanage home may likely to affected in their culture tradition, and religion are their interest’s belief ambitions ideas and soon thus affecting the personality development as their behaviors is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parent. Hence the increase in various research as to find out the effectiveness and influence of these home (orphanage home) on the child personality development. This study tends to find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development. Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development and find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home. This research work would be of importance to orphanage home keepers and another stakeholder whose intention it is to produce orphanage children who are sound in terms of their development. The population of the study is made up of the entire professionals ranging from social workers, sociologists, psychologists and rehabilitative counselors at the Kaduna orphanage home. The meted used in the research is survey. To obtain the necessary information regarding the subject matter a self-constructed questionnaire was distributed to 150 respondents, questions were asked based on the sex, marital status and the impact of orphanage home on child personality development. The findings from the survey revealed that that orphanage homes have significant impact on a child’s personality development, orphanage homes have positive impact to the society in general.