Background
of the Study
The
family is the child’s first place of contact with the world. The child as a
result acquires initial education and socialization from parents and other
significant persons in the family. Agulana (2000) pointed out that the family
lays the psychological, moral and spiritual foundation in the overall
development of the child. Structurally, family/homes is either broken or
intact. A broken home in this context is one that is not structurally intact,
as a result of divorce, separation, death of one parent and illegitimacy. According to Frazer (2004), psychological
home conditions arise mainly from illegitimacy of children, the label of
adopted child, broken home, divorce and parental deprivation. Such abnormal conditions of the home, are
likely to have a detrimental impact on school performance of the child.
Life
in a single parent family or broken home can be stressful for both the child
and the parent. Such families are faced with challenges of inadequate financial
resources (Children defense find 2004). Schults (2006) noted that if
adolescents from unstable homes are to be compared with those from stable
homes, it would be seen that the former have more social, academic and
emotional problems.
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