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The Effect Of Working Mothers’ Career On The Social Adjustment Of Students In Selected Secondary Schools
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Home
is the point of support around which the early years of a child
revolve. The central figures in the home are the parents, especially,
the mother (Adeleke, 1990). Child-bearing and child-rearing are
inseperable. The type of child-rearing practice has tremendous impact on
the entire life of the child including his/her academic, social and
psychological, even moral life on his/her entire life or career.
As
Adiele (1994) puts it, the social climate or environment in which an
indjvidual finds his/her self, to a large extent, determines his/her
behavior or personality development, parental guidance and discipline he
added, usually influence the behavior of the child. At the apex of this
parental influence is the mother.
Mothers’ love for their children
is undeniable. Their feminine nature makes them wholesome, soft,
passionate and sensitive to the plight of their children and a condusive
atmosphere for problem-solving involved (Odomene, 1995).
Chukwuka
(1999) opined that in this period of economic hardship, more women
(wives or mothers) take up paid employment due to the fact that more
women are exposed to the western education and there jobs or careers
take them away from their matrimonial home and duties of taking care of
their children and wards and the proper upbringing of these children.
In
effect, children are often left in the hands and care of the hired
care-giver(s) and maids who do not possess the requisite experience to
train the child and inculcate maternal-morality and good behavior in the
child. In support of this statement, Uzor (2000), points out that
children of these days lack adjustment, because, they are mostly brought
up by others instead of their mothers. He went ahead to claim that even
when these children know the right thing to do, they fail to do them
because, their learning to do good from the family (especially from
their mothers) is faulty due to mothers’ absence to direct and inculcate
the right attitude of children from cradle.
Nkemdirim (2001) states
that, for the fact that mothers are absent from their natural duties of
upbringing of the child in the right way, the resultant effect is the
moral decadence that is prevalent in the society today. A situation
where children no longer respect and observe the norms and values
expected of them. Elders are no longer cherished and respected by the
youths. The youth due to lack of proper and adequate home upbringing by
their mothers, are maladjusted to the extent of upholding negative ideas
and values such as fighting, drug abuse, examination malpractices,
fraud, stealing, lying, promiscuity, disobedience to laid down rules and
regulations and indiscriminate sexual relationships both at home, at
school and general indisciplinary behaviours perpetuated by youths and
the young ones in the society who lack mothers’ care and instructions.
Ayodele
(2005), opines that, women in the contemporary society especially
mothers, miss out in their daily routine and obligations to their
families including the societal adjustment of their children, due to
gainful employment either to augument the family’s income or to empower
themselves economically in the society in order to be independent of
their husbands. Anyanwu (2002) opines that most women who work usually
leave very early in the morning and come back late at night, thereby
leaving the upbringing of the child in the hands of the immature and
inexperienced househelps in the home and in the day care centres.
According to Ayo (2003, children left in the cares and upbringing of the
inexperienced househelps tend to grow up misbehaviouring and upholding
the wrong tenets or values of the society due to non-incuclation of the
basic motherly care, directions and role-modelling.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the effect of working mothers’ career on the social adjustment of students in selected secondary schools in Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. In this study, some relevant and related literature reviews were carried out under sub-headings. The descriptive research survey design was applied in the assessment of the respondents’ opinions using the questionnaire and the sampling technique. The sample of this study consisted of 120 (one hundred and twenty) r ... Continue reading---
