A Study Of Family Disintegration And Deviant Behabiour
[ILORIN METROPOLIS]

Recommendations
Based on the findings, the recommendations given by the researcher are the following;
Firstly, the influence of the family on a child cannot be quantified or over-emphasized. The family as an agent of socialization should help socialize well, the new members of the society as they develop at home. it is believed that, “bad eggs” in the society are the product of “family womb”. With this, deviant behaviour will be reduced to the barest minimum.
Governments, counsellors and concerned agencies should develop programmesaimed at sensitizing parents and care-givers on parent roles and obligations, child-care and development and ways of building a healthy family environment.
Governments should formulate and implement policies that will consolidate the integrity of the family. This is in view of the integral role the family plays in the socialization and moral grooming of the children.
Governments, social workers and counsellors should provide assistance to familiesin need of resolution of conditions of instability and social disruptions in their families.
Alternative institutions such as day care centers and special schools should beconsidered for children of unstable families where other efforts to help them have failed.
Parents and care-givers should endeavour to make out sufficient time to spend with their children in order to monitor and supervise their activities especially what they watch on television and their internet use.
The government through relevant ministries and departments and other non-governmental organizations concerned, should conduct guidance and counselling to the youths in the study area on the dangers of engaging in deviant behaviours such as drug abuse, truancy, theft, gang fighting which was found to be common in the area.