ABSTRACT
This research work was aimed at finding out the effect of divorce on the academic performance of students in some selected secondary schools in Egor L.G.A., Benin City.
The purpose of this research is to identify the problems of divorce and its effects on the academic performance of students in secondary schools. In pursuance of this study, certain problems which require solutions were identified and they are:
(i) Students from broken homes suffer a lot of psychological and emotional problems.
(ii) Insecurity and unruly attitude of step parents of these students lead them to steal items that do not belong to them in school.
(iii) Parents should teach the family on sound foundation of love, mutual understanding and good planning in order to bring up children who will be useful to themselves and to the society.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter one: introduction
Background to study
Statement of problems
Purpose of study
Significance of study
Research questions
Scope of study
Limitation of study
Definition of terms
Chapter two: Literature review
Scientific approach
Courtship
Family organization
Educational background
Theoretical basis of the causes of divorce
Divorce and the future of the family
Chapter three: methodology
Source of data
Population and sample
Sampling techniques
Instrument for collecting data
Validation of data
Reliability of the instrument
Method of data collection
Data analysis techniques
Chapter four
Analysis of data
Discussion
Chapter five
Summary, findings, recommendations and conclusions
Findings
Recommendation
Conclusion
QUESTIONNAIRE
REFERENCE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The marriage of a youth in ancient society was parts of the responsibilities of his parents. The young man had no choice as to the choice of wife. In some cases a wife was married to him at a time. He could not accept to keep a wife. And all maintenance was done by the parents. Such marriages were regarded to be sacred and respected by the spouses. Parents were unnecessarily getting as to where their son was going to get his wife from.
Marriages arranged by parents on the basis of family friendship ties rarely broke up in the past. Divorce which is the legal ending of marriage was also very rare in the past, because of the penalty associated with proven fidelity and the fear offending elders of both families. In Nigeria, there are clearly defined types of marriage. We have the church or statutory marriage, those performed at mosques and marriage constituted according to native law and customs of any ethnic group.
One of the purposes of marriage is to have children and establish a family. When these children eventually arrive, they are regarded as blessing from God and they become both social and economic assets to their parents. The family this time needs a home to live in and feel secured. Thus, home becomes a place where children are nurtured to become responsible to both themselves and the society in general. Such a home should be built on love, rust, mutual understanding and good planning to be able to met its universal goals. In a situation where love and understanding is lacking, such a home becomes filled with crack and fissures. Also, tension and anxiety becomes the order of the day. Thus intimately may result in divorce therefore become a personal misfortune for either of the spouse in any society. Although it may be considered as a universal escape for the inevitable tension in marriage.
Divorce is actually a legal dissolution of the marital union which, involve the governance of the marriage bind between a husband and his wife.
For a marriage to be successful there is the need for the couple to be in harmony mentally, physically and spiritually. In other words, the husband and the wife must have a common goal and each have to contribute his or her own towards the fulfillment in the family and the key word should be love.