THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN NIGERIA SOCIETY

THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN NIGERIA SOCIETY

ABSTRACT

This project work deals with the effects of divorce on the academic achievement of students in Nigeria society. In carrying out this study, participatory observation and questionnaires were used to collect data for this study.  The data collected were analyzed using percentages. The results and the analyzed findings revealed that most of the students who are divorce victims or from divorce homes suffer parental care as a result of living with either the father or the mother. The researcher went ahead to give a number of recommendations which if adhered to could serve as a check to the rate of divorce in our present day society.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The marriage of a youth in ancient society was parts of the responsibilities of his parents. The young man had no choice as to the choice of wife. In some cases, a wife was married to him at a time. He could not accept to keep a wife. And all maintenance was done by the parents. Such marriages were regarded to be sacred and respected by the spouses. Parents were unnecessarily getting as to where their son was going to get his wife from.

Marriages arranged by parents on the basis of family friendship ties rarely broke up in the past. Divorce which is the legal ending of marriage was also very rare in the past, because of the penalty associated with proven fidelity and the fear offending elders of both families. In Nigeria, there are clearly defined types of marriage. We have the church or statutory marriage, those performed at mosques and marriage constituted according to native law and customs of any ethnic group.

One of the purposes of marriage is to have children and establish a family. When these children eventually arrive, they are regarded as blessing from God and they become both social and economic assets to their parents. The family this time needs a home to live in and feel secured. Thus, home becomes a place where children are nurtured to become responsible to both themselves and the society in general. Such a home should be built on love, rust, mutual understanding and good planning to be able to met its universal goals. In a situation where love and understanding is lacking, such a home becomes filled with crack and fissures. Also, tension and anxiety becomes the order of the day. Thus intimately may result in divorce therefore become a personal misfortune for either of the spouse in any society. Although it may be considered as a universal escape for the inevitable tension in marriage.

Divorce is actually a legal dissolution of the marital union which, involve the governance of the marriage