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The Effect Of Working Mothers’ Career On The Social Adjustment Of Students In Selected Secondary Schools
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Ikeofuonye (2000)
is of the opinion that the mother-child relationship has been weakened
by the prolonged absence of the mother from the home due to
routine-employment or career opportunity. He opined that mothers who are
career women or who engage in employment spend more time at workplaces
than in the homes and the effect is lack of motherly guidance and moral
counseling. Furthermore, children grow up to become wayward,
mal-adjusted and delinquent in the society.
Amaonye (2004 examined
the effect of full time employment of wife, mother on husband and
children in the home. He found that mothers who are career women/wives,
do not rear, in most cases, good or well-behaved children in the
community, and that their husbands are not well taken care of due to
intervention of employment or career. Awowinfa (2005) carried out a
study on the influence of working mothers on children’s social
adjustment. His finding showed that mothers’ career interferes with
their home chores and children’s upbringing. Awowinfa, therefore
concluded that full-time house wives make better homes than the working
mothers. According to him working mothers have more unstable homes, more
maladjusted children and more poor school achievement of idea than
non-working or career mothers.
Most adolescents who are brought up by
care-givers due to the absence of mothers who are in search of golden
fleece in terms of gainful employment or business, grow up to lack
etiquette and positive social adjustment (Uzodinma, 2006). No wonder,
many children these days, lack good morals and positive values that are
upheld in any given society. Most children these days have turned out to
be disrespectful to parents and elders in their communities; some of
them do not even know the cultures of their communities, not to talk of
how to keep and respect them. And the society is at the brink of
collapse, because the norms and values that make the society thick have
been in constant disregard and violated due to lack of motherly
upbringing of children.
As Amakor (2005) put it parents especially,
mothers these days, do have the knowledge of child upbringing, but lack
the time and opportunities in bringing these children up in proper ways.
A situation where a mother wakes up early in the morning and leaves for
work while the child is fast asleep and returns very late at night when
the child has gone to bed, will cause most children not to even know
their mothers, not to talk of having the mother-child bonds or
relationships that transpires naturally between mother and child.
Parents need to bring up their children and wards in a proper way,
teaching them to observe the laid down cultures and traditions of the
communities; instructing them to respect and value the societal norms
and values, ethics and good moral behaviours that a child needs to
imbibe in order to grow into acceptable adolescence and adulthood in the
scoiety. (Mumonye, 2003).
1.2 Statement of the Problem:
The
issue of working mothers and its effects on the social adjustment and
academic achievement of the child has been a heated up debate among
Nigerians, most especially, among the man folks. Due to the economic
down-turn in the country and the world in general, which has caused high
inflationary trends and problems, the men have failed in their bid to
win bread for the family. This is as a result of general unemployment
and harsh business environment in the country today. This in turn has
caused the women to go out in search of gainful employment in order to
support the dwindling financial up-keep of the family.
According to
Alfred (2003), most mothers work these days and these has made them to
leave their children at home at the mercy of care-givers and
house-helps, who often maltreat the children and bring them up in the
way devoid of society’s moral values and positive adjustment and norms.
This is the reason why few children in Nigeria today turn out to be area
boys and wayward girls simply because they lack home training as a
result of the absence of mother-care and guidance.
For these reasons,
prostitution, disrespect to the rules and regulations governing the
society and disobedient to parents, significant others and school
authorities are the order of the day. The fact that most children have
lost the opportunity of being reared by their mothers, has lead to moral
decadence and adolescents’ delinquency. This study therefore, sets out
to examine the effects of mother’s career on the children’s social
adjustment.
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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---
