IMPACT OF ABSENTEE PARENTHOOD ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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IMPACT OF ABSENTEE PARENTHOOD ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT
Children’s indiscipline is a problem that has spread throughout Nigerian primary schools. However, children’s discipline in primary schools is not only the responsibility of the school system.
Parents can influence their children’s growth by nurturing them. However, many parents are unable to spend time with their children because they are involved in other activities.
Using John Bowlby’s attachment theory, the study investigated the relationship between absentee fatherhood and children’s development in elementary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The correlational study design was adopted, and the target group consisted of all children in Lagos State who had a history of indiscipline.
The sample population was obtained using stratified random sampling, with 200 children picked from ten primary schools in various grades around the state. The researcher utilised a questionnaire to collect data.
Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential approaches. The study found that younger participants in forms one and two were more affected by their parents’ absence than those in forms three and four.
The majority of individuals, 35.7%, who suffered emotional parental neglect also indicated hostility towards school norms and elders, and reported engaging in various forms of indiscipline while in school.
The study discovered a substantial positive correlation coefficient of 0.853 with a p-value of 0.013 (less than 0.05 at 95% confidence level) between absentee parenthood and the obstacles faced by the respondents.
The study’s findings were expected to help parents recognise the importance of providing their children with more quality time at home. According to the findings, employers, social organisations, and churches should educate parents about the importance of spending more quality time with their children by being emotionally present.
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1. Background for the Study
Primary schools in Nigeria serve thousands of children, whose needs cannot be ignored or wished away without serious consequences for both the children and the world at large.
Misbehaviour in primary schools has grown increasingly widespread, and while school administrators are trying a lot to control the situation, much more work remains to be done to reduce misbehaviour in Nigerian primary schools to negligible levels.
Despite the efforts of school administration, homosexuality, lesbianism, truancy, sexual immorality, delinquency, drug misuse, devil worship, and many other forms of misbehaviour have become widespread in our elementary schools (Biu, 2011).
Misbehaviour in classrooms is not a recent occurrence. From a global perspective, children have demonstrated misbehaviour in various parts of the world.
Holland and Cavanaugh (2000) noticed a significant percentage of misbehaviour in schools in the United States, particularly among youngsters aged 16 to 17, whom he stated were at the zenith of adolescence.
The school administration was concerned about the increasing number of youngsters doing drugs and having sex. Serious incidences of bullying in elementary schools prompted Olweus (1993) to conduct a research at a Swedish university with roughly 21000 students to determine the possible causes of the high rate of indiscipline in Swedish schools. He discovered that 60% of the boys participating in bullying had unstable backgrounds.
In Nigeria, there have been cases of indiscipline in primary schools ranging from school absconding, name calling by children, fights among children, and theft to serious cases of misbehaviour such as riots in and outside the school compound, drug abuse, sexual immorality, rape, bullying of other children, particularly newcomers, truancy, school burning, and even murder of fellow students.
For example, at Upper Hill Primary School in Abuja, Nigeria, a deputy school captain died while attempting to save his fellow students from a blazing dormitory that the youngsters had allegedly set on fire.
At Nyeri High School, several students locked prefects in their cubicles, poured fuel on them, and set fire to the room, killing four of them (Biu, 2011).
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