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The Influence Of Socio-economic Status On Marital Stability
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In many homes today, lack of money and other material things
have caused couples to seek divorce in law courts. For example, a
situation where a husband does not win bread any more, the family upkeep
will be lacking. Situations where there is no money to maintain the
wife, the children’s school fees are not paid as at when due; where
house rents have piled up and the landlord has served a quit notice. In
this particular case, there might not be money to pay up or seek for
another cheaper accommodation somewhere else. There might even be cases
of some creditors constantly visiting the home to seek for pay back.
These stressful condition may cause loss of love and affection
especially on the side of the woman. She may eventually resort to a
divorce in a law court. This will definitely put the family and children
in a bad condition.
Furthermore, children from poor and low
socio-economic homes tend to be malnurished and lack adequate health
maintenance. A family that is poor, may not be happy due to the fact
that it cannot meet up with certain obligation on the family. This may
lead to separation, divorce or husband and wife living under a roof
without mutual love and good relationship. Merely living a cat and mouse
situation or kind of relationship will eventually jeopardize the
marriage and children would eventually suffer for it. The above reasons
gave rise to the examination of this study.
1.2Purpose of the study
The
main purpose of the study is to find out the influence of
socio-economic status on marital stability among selected couples in
Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Specific objectives of the study include:
1. To ascertain whether socio-economic status of couples influence their marital stability.
2.
To assess whether difference exists between the academic performance of
students whose parents are living together and those whose parents are
living separately.
3. To find out whether a significant
difference exists between the attitudes of couples who live together and
those who do not.
4. To observe whether significant relationship exists between stable homes and unstable homes.
1.3Research Questions
These research questions were be asked in this study:
i. Is there any significant influence of the socio-economic status on couples marital stability?
ii.
Is there any significant difference between the academic performance of
children whose parents are living together and those whose parents are
separated?
iii. Will there be any significant differences
between the attitude of couples who live together and those who live
separately?
iv. Will there be any relationship between the attitude of children in stable and unstable homes?
1.4Research Hypotheses
The following research hypotheses were formulated for testing in this study:
1. There will be no significant influence of the socio-economic status of couples on marital stability.
2.
There will be no significant difference between the attitude of couples
who come from high socio-economic homes and those who come from the low
socio-economic homes.
3. There will be no significant
difference between the attitude of children who come from high
socio-economic homes and those who come from low socio-economic homes.
4.
There will be no significant difference between the academic
performance of children who come from poor socio-economic background and
those from wealthy families.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the influence of socio-economic status on marital stability among couples in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Some relevant and related literature was reviewed in this study.The descriptive survey research design was employed in this study for the assessment of the respondents’ opinion with the application of the questionnaire and the sampling technique. The questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents, while the sampling technique was used to ... Continue reading---
