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EFFECT OF
WORKING MOTHERS ON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN
ABSTRACT
This study
entitled "The Effect of working Mothers on the Educational Development
their Children" was designed to be descriptive survey method. A sample of
49 children was selected for the study. These children were basic six pupils
and the scores for the pupils for three years were used. A simple questionnaire
was designed to elicit this information. Five hypotheses were raised to guide
the study and hypotheses were tested using analyses of variance CANOVA) and
regression technique at 0.05 level of significance.
The study
showed that children educational development have high correlation with the
working status of the mother and the children moral development does not have
any relationship with working status of the mother. In addition, works of
mothers do not have any impact on whether the children are male or female and
works of mothers do not have impact on children involving in extra curricular
activities. Lastly, works of mothers have long run effect on children
performance in examination.
The study
therefore recommends working mothers should be given some consideration in
places of work to have time in attending to their children school and also,
government should establish a policy that will allow mothers who are rearing
children to leave office early during their children daycare period for proper
upbringing.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The need to
make all children have access to quality education has made the Federal
Government to re-introduce the universal basic education which provides free
and compulsory education for all children to Nigeria from basis one to basic
mine. This need has made the various tiers of governments to come out with
series of incentives, which would encourage children enrolment in schools
(Fagbemi, 2006). The effort of the Federal Government has not yielded any
positive results, owing to the fact that the standard of education in Nigeria
has been falling rapidly over the years in terms of achievement in writing and
oral examinations.
The Nigerian
students perform poorly in public examinations such as National Examination
Council(NECO), West Africa Examination Council (WAEC,)Joint Admission And
Matriculation Board(JAMB) and National Business and Technical Council (NABTEC),
and the rate of participation of students in examination malpractices has
reached an alarming rate. The scenario that has been painted is that Nigerian
students are having interest in malpractices than being studious. This
development in the educational system has become an issue in which the stakeholders
are searching for what might have been responsible for this. The parents have
been seen as one of the main reasons for the lost of virtue in the Nigerian
educational system.
The high
cost of living has led many women to leave their traditional duties of child
upbringing to seek for paid employment. In the traditional African settings,
women stay at home and nurture the children (Parker, 2010). Through them, the
children learn at first contract the norms and obligations of the society. At
this period, the children grow up to be morally competent and hardworking.
Today, the need to provide for the well-being of the family as well as for
their children has thrown many women into the labour market. Equal access to
education has made women to reach highs level in educational and career
pursuit. Women are lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects, medical
doctors, pilots and so on.
Many of
these employments do not give them time to carryout their traditional roles as
women in the homes. Thus, they are to depend on the service of the third-party
for the well-being of their children. What happen to the children of these
working women? Are they able to reach the expected limit in their educational
development? Is it possible for working women to have competent children in
academics? It is on this note that this study wants to examine the impact of
working mothers on their children educational development.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Many have
believed that working mothers exert negative influence on their children
educational development. Children of women who work are believed to be slow in
learning at their early years of growth. These children do not have the
privilege to have motherly care and they have less support from their mothers'
in terms of being assisted with their home works. Being at home, they are left
unsupervised and they are released into the hands of the mass media that do not
have positive norms to show to these children.
These
children have no help when they need their help of a trustworthy and reliable
person who is nothing but their parents. Thus, they engage in every form of
social vices because these are what they have learnt from mass media that have
become their "foster parents." They smoke, fight, commit sexual immorality,
and cheat in examination and many of them are dying of drug, cigarette, sexual
abuse, homosexual, drinks, cultism, and street fighting to examine the impact
of working mothers on their children educational development.
1.3
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main objectives
of this study is to examine the impact of working mothers on the educational
development of the children. Specifically, the Sub-objectives of the study
include:
i.
To determine the effect of working mothers on children educational attainment
ii.
To identify to extent at which mothers' work affect their children moral
development
iii.
To identify whether there is difference in working mothers' impact based
on the sex of the children
iv.
To examine whether mothers' frequent visits to their children's school
have effect on the children educational attainment
v.
To examine whether the children of working mothers involve actively in
school activities.
1.4 RESEARCH
HYPOTHESES
HOI: Working mothers do not have any significant
impact on their children's educational attainment
Ho2: Working mothers do not have any significant
impact on their children's moral development
H03: There
is no significant difference between working mothers' effect on their children
education and the sex of their children
H04: Working
mothers frequent visit to their children's schools do not have any impact on
their children educational development
H05:
Children of working mothers will be actively involved school extra curriculum
activities
H06:
Children whose mothers are working and highly educated do not do well in their
studies like these whose mothers are less educated and are working.
1.5
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The rate of
low academic achievement and lack of moral among the school children in Nigeria
are calling for concerted effort to examine the impact of working mothers on
their children. These problems have attracted the concerns of the stakeholders
in education, family and society. Therefore, this study will provide some
insights to all stakeholders in education, family and society by bringing to
limelight some basis but unclarified issue regarding the working mothers and
their children educational development to that extent, it may hopefully serve
as a basis for government in among out with good policy on women who are
working and rearing children.
1.6 Delimitation of Study
This study
is delimited to the working mothers who
resides within the Alimosho local government area of Lagos State. This will
include various categories of working mothers. Alimosho local government is one of the 20 local government area of
Lagos state as recognized by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
The
limitation of study were as a
result of reluctant on the side
of the respondents to fill the questionnaire, ignorant of some the respondents.
Also the problems of time constraints
and distance to be covered by the researcher in the course of
carrying out this study.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Working
mothers: These are women who are mothers and at the same time engage in work.
Impact: This
is the influence a variable has on another variable. In this study, it is the
influence that working mothers have on their children educational development.
Educational
Development: This is the qualitative and quantitative development of the
children in terms of what they acquire in education.
NECO :
National Examination Council
WAEC : West
Africa Examination Council
JAMB : Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board
NABTEC:
National Business and Technical Educational Council
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