Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
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<0.05) at 0.05 level of
significance. Also, the results from mean plot further illustrated and revealed
the homogeneity (between and within groups) of the means about the midpoint.
Hence the null hypotheses Ho were accepted while the alternative hypothesis Hi
was rejected. The result provided a substantive evidence to adjudge that there
is no significant variation between single parentage and psychosocial
development of single parents’ children in primary schools in Obudu and that
the homogeneity assumptions of the variance is met by the research. It was
therefore recommended that school councilor’s, social workers, and others in
allied fields should take speedy actions towards addressing the phenomenon of
single parenting as it affects child’s development.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2023 pp. 242-248