ABSTRACT

The first chapter deals with information about effect of Broken home on school drop-out such as the statement of the study, the purpose of the study, the scope of the study, the significance of the study, the researcher assumption as well as definition of terms. The second chapter on the other hand deals with reviewing of related literature to find out more about what other researchers where able to find during their research findings. This is done by borrowing their ideas or opinions as regards the research topic. In the third chapter, the researcher discussed the methods used for data collection and analysis. And the findings of percentages. Chapter four discussed and work out the tabulation and data analysis. Finally, in the last chapter, the researcher discussed the summary of major findings, implication of the study, limitation of the study and suggestion for further studies. This researcher work has been based solely on students in broken homes. This research work is limited to effect of broken home on school drop-out alone.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Zangon Kataf Local Government is one of the twenty-three (23) Local Government areas in Kaduna State with the Headquarters in Zonkwa. It is bounded by Kachia Local Government, Jema’a Local Government, Kaura Local Government and Kauru Local Government. Zango Local Government is made up of three (3) chiefdoms are subdivided into 36 districts. Bajju chiefdom has 13 districts within the Atyap chiefdom having 14 districts, while Ikulu/Kamatan chiefdom has nine (9) districts. This investigation on the eects of broken homes on school drop out and the quality of their education in Kaduna State would be concentrated in Government Secondary School Samaru Kataf, Government Secondary School Madakiya, Government Secondary School Wadon, Government Secondary School Fadan Kaje and Government Secondary School Aduwan Gida Areas.

The investigation is been carried out to school drop out as it aects the quality of education and the possible solution. Education for students is of great importance especially in the modern Nigeria society as we live in changing society and a changing world. The drop out of students is because most of the students in the above mentioned schools are faced with a lot of problems as a broken home child because lack of proper handling or proper care by their parents which make most of the students cannot coup with their studies due to lack of proper care by their parents many students in the above mentioned schools have been telling lies to their parents that they are forced to pay some certain amount of money in their schools while it is nor true. Students here have their own effect of the broken home on the academic performance.

However, marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman to live as husband and wife. It is a process where by a man took a woman as a partner to live forever. This process of their staying together is recognized or determined by a contract and agreement. The two (2) couple staying together except by some problems they encountered before they could separate. When they stay within a short time they could be blessed with children and from here development occur in their compound. There are some obligation that the man have to frame his family which are very important, like wise the wife as a mother in the compound. Here the husband being the head of the family is assigned to certain responsibilities such as feeding, sheltering and others to the family, while the wife being the mother of the family also assigned to perform some task such as taking care of the house hold activities like, cooking, clean the house environment and bathing the children in the home. So also their staying together and performing these duties assigned to both of them is what we call marriage since they are living together with their children. We have understood the word marriage, now we shall look at the meaning of broken home. Since its meaning came from marriage, broken is a process where by the two couple are no longer living together in unity or as husband and wife.

This is because of some conflict arising from them, and most of these problems are caused by lack of understanding between themselves both in social and personal reasons, so when marriage is no longer been as it was right from the initiating time or the two couple have separated it means that the home has broken down. In a nut shell, when these couple separated it brings a total change both in the man, woman and the children they have gotten in their life, and the society in which they live in, with their academic performance. In this field especially the children have no rest of mind with their friends, school and the whole society. This result to their poor academic performance and also lead to the drop out of the students in most of the colleges. In a situation where the father married another woman and it happened that she did not take proper care by advising, feeding or sponsoring them in the school. This children have to encounter a lot of problems, and more so lead to lack of concentration in the school. Where some of them develop the spirit of stealing, smoking, telling lies etc. With the above problems of broken home, it will lead to the students dropout from school and also affect the quality of education of a student. The girl-child drop out in school refers to situation that the student is not able to complete his/her education based on the problems of broken home.

Because the children from broken home had lost most of their opportunity such as security, parental care, moral training and face a lot of stresses and tension from the step mother and they encounter problems or frustration wherever they are. The children may grow and become some bad eggs in the society because they did not interact with others to know what is actually going on in the society. Students from broken homes perform poorly in academic situation and easily dropout from the school due to the problems of broken home mentioned above. We see a home under family as the basic unit of a society. This is the most important component of a country. A house is where a family lives. It may be alternated to the word ‘house’ but a house is more appropriately referring to the material structure, whereas ‘home’ refers to the intangible things that bind together the family members. It is the immeasurable love and care that keeps together mother, father and their children.