Impact of Single Parenting on the Psychosocial Development of Children in Primary Schools in Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria

Single parenting is becoming an incidence of utmost concern around the globe due to the frenetic pace of events caused by rapid and unobstructed mobility of persons, goods, services and information between areas. Traditional life modes are being rapidly eroded by western globalized life modes brought about by education and modernization.  Both kinship and extended family tiers have been abandoned for western individualistic ideas.  This study is informed by this trend which is contributing significantly to disruption of social cohesion. Delinquent Youths restiveness, banditry and many other social problems may be the aftermath of this state of affairs. This study is saddled with the objectives of investigating and unravelling the underlying basis of the impact of single parenting on the overall development of an individual up to his adult stage of life.  The literature review follows existing studies reported from field investigation on the subject matter. The methodology covers the explanation of the area of study, the research population, sampling procedure, instrument for data collection, method of data collection and methods of data analysis which was through one way test of homogeneity of variances and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The Levene Statistic in the result of the test showed that there is no significant difference among the variances (Strongly Agree 1.653, Agree 1.673, Disagree I.731 and Strongly Disagree 0.505), since (p