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Family Background As Correlate Of Child Socialization
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Another type of home background
is where parents seem to have no time for the upbringing of their
children and their proper socialization in the society. In such homes,
parents are more pre-occupied with the quest to get rich quickly by
racing after money. They therefore, shift the responsibilities of
training their children to the house maids who themselves had no
training (Olayinka, 1987). Such parent always claim to be pursuing
businesses for the upkeep of the children, without knowing the ugly
effect of their deeds. This is because such children eventually end up
creating more problems than the parents envisaged. It is quite
surprising to note that some parents are afraid to talk to their
children especially, the adolescent ones even among the enlightened
parents even when they know that the child has gone wrong and needs to
be corrected, just because they do not want the child to be angry with
them (Onwuama, 1988). It is uncommon therefore to hear most parents
comment that most children are bad these days. That it is better to
leave them than to correct and become their enemies. More often than
not, such parents would prefer to ask an outsider to discipline their
children for them, this is rather sad. Onwuama contend that, although
the young ones (adolescents) have the tendency to behave in a way that
is contrary to adults expectation, it is the responsibility of the
adults to put them right. Parents have to correct their children and
point out to them the normal and expected roles to play in the society.
Parents ought to direct their children to the expected societal values
and norms that would make them good society members in their future
(Ayo, 2000). This study intends to explore the home background as
correlate of child socialization.
1.2Statement of the Problem
These
days, most parents do not know how to bring up their children properly
and socialize them appropriately to the extent of inculcating in them
the right values and norms expected of them in a decent society.
The
type of home background in which a child is nurtured to a great extent,
determines the overall attitude of the child in the larger society. Many
parents adopt negative parenting styles in the upbringing and
socialization of their children and these have affected the social life
of the child. For instance, parents who are authoritarian in their style
of bringing up the child, usually rear children who are wide apart from
the conformity to the normal roles and norms/values for behaviour which
are established by culture in a given society. The bad or inappropriate
training given to a child makes him or her to become socially deformed
and socially incompetent adult. When a child is of poor family
upbringing, he/she is not able to interact effectively with other
members of his/her society.
According to Achilles (1990), parental
role is essential in child’s socialization. Many children who are
wrongly brought up, end up having inferiority complex, feeling of quilt,
confused; isolated; being moody and despair and lack the ability to
socialize well among their peers in the community. The above perceived
problems motivated the examination of the family background as a
correlate of child socialization in secondary schools.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined family background as correlate of child socialization: a case study of selected schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. Descriptive research survey design was adopted in assessing the opinions of the respondents with the use of questionnaire. Three hundred and fifty respondents were used as the representatives of the entire population of the study. Five null hypotheses were generated and tested with the use of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation for hypoth ... Continue reading---
