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Influence Of Parental Involvement On The Promotion Of Family Life Education
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Preparing individuals and families for
the roles and responsibilities of family living is nothing new, because
relationships, and family living is not innate, societies have needed to
develop ways through which they may transit the wisdom and the
experience of family living from one operation to succeeding ones. Some
societies transmit this knowledge through formal means such as puberty
or initiation rites. For most part, however individuals learn about
family living in the family setting itself as they observe and
participate in family activities and interaction in their own and other
families (Aluede, 2002). As societies change and become more complex
this pattern of informal learning in families becomes inadequate. The
development of new knowledge, advances in technology and changing social
and economic conditions create situation where the teaching of previous
generations are no longer appropriate or sufficient, in these
circumstances, societies must find or create new ways to prepare
individuals for their family roles and responsibilities. One of these
new ways is family life education (Alueze and Ikechukwu, 2002).
The
desire that Nigeria should be a free, just and democratic society, a
land full of opportunities for all its citizens, able to generate a
great and dynamic economy, and growing into a united and self reliant
nation, cannot be over-emphasized; to achieve these goals, education in
Nigeria is an instrument par excellence for effective national
development Federal Ministry of Education (2004). With changes in the
society, every child desires to become a millionaire within a day. It
now seems to be difficult for majority of the children to really
concentrate on their studies in this country. Good community committee
(2005) observed that the seed of academic under-achievement among
children have been imbibed from childhood. Many children fail to find
self-respect or self-discipline and capacity to cope with problems in
ways that are constructive or have any appreciation on the importance of
skills needed for learning. In other words, it seems to be true that
the causes of academic-achievement among the youths are multiple,
complex and interrelated. Good community committee (1995) and Schewertz
(2005) identified single-parenthood, poverty, youth v iolent (crime),
drug problem, school instability and rebellion as causes of children
under-achievement in schools. Sewel (2000) include among many other
reasons for students drop out as no liking school, being suspended or
being expelled. Other reasons include economic reasons socio-economic
status of the family. Influence from friends who are also school
drop-outs, personal reasons such as pregnancy for girls. In addition,
school drop-outs had lower grades in school, more disciplinary problems,
and lower rate of home work completion externalized sense control.
Often times, when children fail their promotion examinations, they would
rather prefer going to farm and obtain or acquire plots of land to
plant cocoa and become cocoa farmers. During cocoa season in such parts
of South-West Nigeria, children and parents’ common slang is ‘Oga
teacher, how much is your salary? Two kilos (Kilogrammes) of cocoa will
pay your salary. This local syndrome might be responsible for students
drop-out in many rural areas. The rate of drop out appears to be worst
among boys with the emergence of commercial motor cycling known as
Okada. Also, some boys become bus conductors or illegal timber
contractor know as ‘Payabayaba’.
According to Ayodele (2007),
there was a case of a male student who was arrested for social ills
(stealing) and during interrogation; he said that he dropped out from
school because his school fees was not paid and his mother gave birth to
nine children for different nine fathers. Ayodele says further that in
the study of some female students, it revealed that when they fail in
school or their fees were not paid, they seem to experience fear,
anxiety, inferiority complex and guilt among their mates and this seems
to give them some psychological problem. This leads female children to
get involve in pre-marital sex and hurriedly get married.
Owuamanam
(2002) contends that some people go into marriage when there is no money
to pay school fees or take care of their children’s needs. Another
problem observed to be rampant among female children is the issue of
regular meeting. As soon as some female children see their drop-out
friends with expensive wears and their babies, the next thing they do is
to copy their colleagues so that they too can dress like friends and
look nice among their peer groups, this usually results to termination
of their academic career.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the Influence of Parental Involvement on the Promotion of Family Life Education in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. The purpose of this research was to determine the level of family success in the promotion of the family life education and to assess the challenges affecting the family life education Five questions and hypotheses were stated for the study, the study employed a descriptive survey research design. An instrument titled: Influence of Paren ... Continue reading---
