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Effect Of Working Mothers On The Educational Development Of Their Children
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The need to make all
children have access to quality education has made the Federal
Government to re-introduce the universal basic education which provides
free and compulsory education for all children to Nigeria from basis one
to basic mine. This need has made the various tiers of governments to
come out with series of incentives, which would encourage children
enrolment in schools (Fagbemi, 2006). The effort of the Federal
Government has not yielded any positive results, owing to the fact that
the standard of education in Nigeria has been falling rapidly over the
years in terms of achievement in writing and oral examinations.
The
Nigerian students perform poorly in public examinations such as National
Examination Council(NECO), West Africa Examination Council (WAEC,)Joint
Admission And Matriculation Board(JAMB) and National Business and
Technical Council (NABTEC), and the rate of participation of students in
examination malpractices has reached an alarming rate. The scenario
that has been painted is that Nigerian students are having interest in
malpractices than being studious. This development in the educational
system has become an issue in which the stakeholders are searching for
what might have been responsible for this. The parents have been seen as
one of the main reasons for the lost of virtue in the Nigerian
educational system.
The high cost of living has led many women to
leave their traditional duties of child upbringing to seek for paid
employment. In the traditional African settings, women stay at home and
nurture the children (Parker, 2010). Through them, the children learn at
first contract the norms and obligations of the society. At this
period, the children grow up to be morally competent and hardworking.
Today, the need to provide for the well-being of the family as well as
for their children has thrown many women into the labour market. Equal
access to education has made women to reach highs level in educational
and career pursuit. Women are lawyers, accountants, engineers,
architects, medical doctors, pilots and so on.
Many of these
employments do not give them time to carryout their traditional roles as
women in the homes. Thus, they are to depend on the service of the
third-party for the well-being of their children. What happen to the
children of these working women? Are they able to reach the expected
limit in their educational development? Is it possible for working women
to have competent children in academics? It is on this note that this
study wants to examine the impact of working mothers on their children
educational development.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study entitled "The Effect of working Mothers on the Educational Development their Children" was designed to be descriptive survey method. A sample of 49 children was selected for the study. These children were basic six pupils and the scores for the pupils for three years were used. A simple questionnaire was designed to elicit this information. Five hypotheses were raised to guide the study and hypotheses were tested using analyses of variance CANOVA) and regression technique at 0.05 leve ... Continue reading---
