SOCIO-LINGUISTICS EXPLORATION OF SINGLE PARENTHOOD IN IGBO CONTEMPOARY LIFE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

“Parents are the first point of contact of children. When both parents are present, it implies that the child would derive most care” (Ortese, 1998). “The parents are mainly responsible for the socialization and development of their children. Single parenting is a situation in which one of the two individuals involved in the conception of the child is being responsible for upbringing of the child” (Child, 2003 and Esleman, 2005). “However, when one of the parent is absent in a child’s life, a gap is created as the child would lose the support that would have emanated from that parent”. Ortese (1998) and Salami and Alawode (2000) have asserted that “single parenting result from divorce, separation of various kinds, having children out of wedlock or death of one spouse which leaves the roles in the hands of a single parent”. Whether divorced, or one of the parents is dead or parental separation or single never married mothers or fathers are all single parents. Other researchers have shown that children training within single parenthood settings usually meet with several unpleasant values. According to Mclanahan and Sandefur (1994), “children from single parent homes are more likely to experience low academic achievement and aspirations”. Observations and some studies have shown that children from single parent homes are faced with many problems such as increased psychological distress, health and behavior problems, deviant activities and high rate of poverty in the society. Finance is the major challenge of many single parents, without the second parent either mother or father around to help and do his or her own part, the family may be faced with many problems. Children living in single parent’s families start school late and leave school earlier than children that are from two parent family (the intact family). Onzima (2011) "detailed the “effects of broken homes and divorce to modify family income and spending on the children, which further affects amount of time spent with the children”. These barriers affect educational achievement of a learner. As an implication, a girl learner may be stressed up and would not mind getting married at a very early age with a lower educational status than daughters of intact family parents. Following the findings of Conley and Glauber (2005), a family faced with prolonged financial inadequacies is not to have many children that cannot be properly cared for in the schools. This is because such situation will affect the children`s educational achievement. The budgets of single mothers are usually very tight and single mothers have to take second jobs to cover house hold expenses, day-care bills and debt repayments, transport for children to school especially when the children are many. Some research reports such as Onzima (2011), explained that “single parent or step-parent children have the tendency of not finishing up their studies at the high school and college levels, have less parental care, parent monitoring of school work and have less social supervision”. Ferreira (1994) and Zangqa (1994) add that such parents are not always available for the children. According to Sigle-Rushton and MchLanahan (2004), “father-absent children graduate from high school and attend college at a lower rate and are more likely to use drugs than children from father-present homes”. A father occupies a position that is in line with God`s plan in the scriptures of the bible, such that the father being present at home will do so much in the life of children. There is no doubt that children fear their father and there are times they will be scared about some actions they want to exhibit when their father is around them. A child that has control at home must surely be controlled outside, even in the school and this will no doubt positively affect his or her academic achievement. These results have really shown that the percentage of father-present children who have high school qualifications and attend college is higher than that of single fatherless children. This implies that there is gap in their educational achievement; it shows they are lacking the presence of father that would have affected their education in so many ways. The researcher after examining all the contributions of various researchers found that money alone is not the issue needed in this situation, but the presence of both parents is very important. Study shows that having a single parent has certain effects on a child. Of course, some effects are good but some are also bad. Since a lot of single parents are dealing with their children by themselves. There are good effects of being a single parent too. As an effect of being a single parent, you will be very close to your child or children. You will be the only one they will look up to and you will have their undivided unconditional love. You will also be the only authority they will look up to. You will be able to have all of their respect and love, making it easy for you to make rules and also for them to follow. In your family, there will be no pairing up or partnership between members. Your family will be very close and the single parent will be in full control.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Reviewing existing research on the single parenthood in contemporary Igbo life.
Causes and challenges of single parenthood in Igbo life
how single parenting affects the psychosocial lives of the children.
How single parenthood affect the psychological lives of the mothers
Reasons why some Igbo nollywood actresses chose single parenthood.

1.3 Objectives of the Study

The main objective of this study is the psychosociological examination of single parenthood amongst the Igbo Nollywood actresses in Nigeria. But for the successful completion of the study; the researcher intends to achieve the following sub-objectives;

To identify the causes and effects of single parenthood amongst the nollywood actresses in the contemporary Igbo life.
To ascertain the effect of single parenthood on a child within the Igbo setting.
To ascertain the relationship between single parenthood and the psychological behavior of a child and that of the mother
To point out the challenges of single parenthood in the Igbo life setting.
To expantiate the reasons why some Igbo nollywood actresses are single mothers

1.4 Significance of the Study

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