THE IMPACT OF ORPHANAGE HOME ON CHILD PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Children brought up in the orphanage home cannot cope effectively with the outside world, this display in their dispositions because most of them tend to be introverts and always want to keep to themselves in few causes they turn out to be backward in speed and verbal intelligence. Children who grew up in the orphanage home may likely to affected in their culture tradition, and religion are their interests belief ambitions ideas and soon thus affecting the personality development as their behaviors is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parent.
Hence the increase in various research as to find out the effectiveness and influence of these home (orphanage home) on the child personality development.
This study tends to find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development. Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development and find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.
This research work would be of importance to orphanage home keepers and another stakeholders whose intention it is to produce orphanage children who are sound interms of their development.
The population of the study is made up of the entire professionals ranging from social workers, sociologists, psychologists and rehabilitative counselors at the kaduna orphanage home.
The meted used in the research is survey. To obtain the necessary information regarding the subject matter a self constructed questionnaire was distributed to 150 respondents, questions were asked based on the sex, marital status and the impact of orphanage home on child personality development.
The findings from the survey revealed that that orphanage homes have significant impact on a child’s personality development, orphanage homes have positive impact to the society in general.
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
The orphanage home is one of the numerous social institution that have emerged over the year to carter for some of the social needs of orphanage associated with such problems.
Motherless babies have nowadays become common because of the moral decadence of the society young people who cannot cater for themselves find themselves put in the family way they end up find abandoning those innocent helpless babies. The increasing hardship because of the present economic recession has increased the incidence of burden family relationship and the consequent loss of firm control of family members.
This has tended as evidence by the increasing number of abandoned babies such babies have become the central focus of the orphanage home the impact of orphanage home on child personality development that is the behaviour pattern of social behariour on child personality development.
The research try to compare children between the age of one (1) month to three (3) years that grows up in orphanage home to those that grow-up with their parent children from the orphanage behave in a unique pattern thereby displaying some certain social behaviour attitude that could be associated with the up bringing in the orphanage home. I want to find out the positive and negative aspect of orphanage home on children personality development generally. Any baby that lost his or her parent especially the mother by what every means become mentally ill once it is discovered the illness is taken from the mother by the orphanage children abandon in hospital or on the street are taken to the orphanage home.
Social welfare services and training of professional social workers of all categories social workers can succeed out making their contribution towards realizing their objective of government in improving people welfare only after they have keenly understood the problem.
The causes and the effect of those people on he community the desertation is an attempt toward such changes taking place and their documentation the study will focus on the impact of the orphanage home on childpersonality development in the later parts of his life.
The Kaduna orphanage home is the birth child of JammiyyarMatanArewa.
The JamiyarMatanArewa itself is a social organization of northern women established on the 27th May 1963 it was aimed at unifying the women folk and providing hem with a forum of welfare activities.
The organization was to be non-political and it membership was to be opened to all tribes religions or social status at the very first meeting of the JammiyarMatanArewa which took place in the house of General Hassan UsmanKatsina a steering committee was set up to carry on the task of mobilizing women for the association and also to plan and organize fund raising activities to meet up the financial obligation of the association.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Children brought up in the orphanage home cannot cope effectively with the outside world this display in their dispositions because most of them tend to be introverts and always want to keep to themselves in few causes they turn out to be backward in speed and verbal intelligence.
According to Segmund Fraud (1945) children who grown up in the orphanage home may likely to affected in their culture tradition, and religion are their interests belief ambitions ideas and soon thus affecting the personality development as their behaviors is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parent. Hence the increase in various research as to find out the effectiveness and influence of these home (orphanage home) on the child personality development.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1. Find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.
2. Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development.
3. Find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.
1.4. Significance of the study
This study seeks to unveil the effect of the orphanage home on the child personality development with a view to helping researchers and orphanage home keepers to properly focus on child development so as to be able to produce orphanage children who are sound and have high personality traits.
1.4 ResearchQuestions.
1. What are the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.
2. What are the likely effect of orphanage home on the child personality.
3. What are the morale and attitude acquired by children raised in the orphanage home.
Research hypotheses
Hypothesis 1
H0: orphanage homes do not have positive impact to the society in general.
H1: orphanage homes have positive impact to the society in general.
Hypothesis 2
H0: orphanage homes do not have significant impact on a Childs personality development.
H1: orphanage homes have significant impact on a Childs personality development.
1.5 Scope of the Study
This study is limited to the orphanage home Kaduna. Therefore the study is restricted to the impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.
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