Impact Of Orphanage Home On The Child’s Personality Development

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Abstract

Children brought up in the orphanage home cannot cope effectively with the outside world, this display in their dispositions because most of them tend to be introverts and always want to keep to themselves in few causes they turn out to be backward in speed and verbal intelligence. Children who grew up in the orphanage home may likely to affected in their culture tradition, and religion are their interests belief ambitions ideas and soon thus affecting the personality development as their behaviors is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parent.

Hence the increase in various research as to find out the effectiveness and influence of these home (orphanage home) on the child personality development.

This study tends to find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development. Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development and find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.

This research work would be of importance to orphanage home keepers and another stakeholders whose intention it is to produce orphanage children who are sound interms of their development.

The population of the study is made up of the entire professionals ranging from social workers, sociologists, psychologists and rehabilitative counselors at the kaduna orphanage home.

The meted used in the research is survey. To obtain the necessary information regarding the subject matter a self constructed questionnaire was distributed to 150 respondents, questions were asked based on the sex, marital status and the impact of orphanage home on child personality development.

The findings from the survey revealed that that orphanage homes have significant impact on a child’s personality development, orphanage homes have positive impact to the society in general.

Chapter One

Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

The orphanage home is one of the numerous social institution that have emerged over the year to carter for some of the social needs of orphanage associated with such problems.

Motherless babies have nowadays become common because of the moral decadence of the society young people who cannot cater for themselves find themselves put in the family way they end up find abandoning those innocent helpless babies. The increasing hardship because of the present economic recession has increased the incidence of burden family relationship and the consequent loss of firm control of family members.

This has tended as evidence by the increasing number of abandoned babies such babies have become the central focus of the orphanage home the impact of orphanage home on child personality development that is the behaviour pattern of social behariour on child personality development.

The research try to compare children between the age of one (1) month to three (3) years that grows up in orphanage home to those that grow-up with their parent children from the orphanage behave in a unique pattern thereby displaying some certain social behaviour attitude that could be associated with the up bringing in the orphanage home. I want to find out the positive and negative aspect of orphanage home on children personality development generally. Any baby that lost his or her parent especially the mother by what every means become mentally ill once it is discovered the illness is taken from the mother by the orphanage children abandon in hospital or on the street are taken to the orphanage home.

Social welfare services and training of professional social workers of all categories social workers can succeed out making their contribution towards realizing their objective of government in improving people welfare only after they have keenly understood the problem.

The causes and the effect of those people on he community the desertation is an attempt toward such changes taking place and their documentation the study will focus on the impact of the orphanage home on child personality development in the later parts of his life.

The Kaduna orphanage home is the birth child of Jammiyyar Matan Arewa.

The Jamiyar Matan Arewa itself is a social organization of northern women established on the 27th May 1963 it was aimed at unifying the women folk and providing hem with a forum of welfare activities.

The organization was to be non-political and it membership was to be opened to all tribes religions or social status at the very first meeting of the Jammiyar Matan Arewa which took place in the house of General Hassan Usman Katsina a steering committee was set up to carry on the task of mobilizing women for the association and also to plan and organize fund raising activities to meet up the financial obligation of the association.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Children brought up in the orphanage home cannot cope effectively with the outside world this display in their dispositions because most of them tend to be introverts and always want to keep to themselves in few causes they turn out to be backward in speed and verbal intelligence.

According to Segmund Fraud (1945) children who grown up in the orphanage home may likely to affected in their culture tradition, and religion are their interests belief ambitions ideas and soon thus affecting the personality development as their behaviors is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parent. Hence the increase in various research as to find out the effectiveness and influence of these home (orphanage home) on the child personality development.

1.3 Purpose of the Study

Find out the positive and negative IMPACT OF ORPHANAGE HOME ON THE CHILD’S PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT.
Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development.
Find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.

1.4. Significance of the Study

This study seeks to unveil the effect of the orphanage home on the child personality development with a view to helping researchers and orphanage home keepers to properly focus on child development so as to be able to produce orphanage children who are sound and have high personality traits.

1.5 Research Questions.

What are the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.
What are the likely effect of orphanage home on the child personality.
What are the morale and attitude acquired by children raised in the orphanage home.

1.6 Research Hypotheses

Hypothesis 1

H0: orphanage homes do not have positive impact to the society in general.
H1: orphanage homes have positive impact to the society in general.

Hypothesis 2

H0: orphanage homes do not have significant impact on a Childs personality development.
H1: orphanage homes have significant impact on a Childs personality development.

1.5 Scope of the Study

This study is limited to the orphanage home Kaduna. Therefore the study is restricted to the impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.

Chapter Five

Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

The objectives of the study were to:

Find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.
Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development.
Find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.

Findings from the study revealed the following

That orphanage homes have significant impact on a child’s personality development.
That orphanage homes have positive impact on the society in general

5.1 Summary and Conclusion

The orphanage acts as an institution to meet the various needs of children in the absence of parental care. Also the various categories of social workers employed in the orphanage al aim at the child’s various aspects of the life ranging from moral social and religious. Education of the child to health maintenance food shelter and provides optimum care whether the parents of the child deceases absent or unknown and whether the child is legitimate or illegitimate the orphanage tries to guarantee the child in Nigeria society we have different traditional and cultural background.

Therefore our attitudes toward children who come from these institutions are not helpful.

Generally these children are regarded as outcasts as such most members of the society reject them because of the social effects of staying at the children’s home sometimes one may find out they cannot cope more effectively with the outside world with the development of orphanage children could become retarded their behavior is not only more indiscriminate but more immature than those children who are with their natural parents.

5.2 Recommendations

I would like to suggest ways in which the organization of the home mean possibly improved.

First of all ministry should be more involve in the activities of the home.
Also the staff of the home especially the nannies should undergo basis training in child psychology this will raise their level of knowledge in taking care of the children.
There is also need to have a standardized procedural law for adoption of the children and children and there should be penalty for any couple that abuses these children.
The ministry should specify the category of people who will adopt these particular groups of children the home should also put down age limit of staying in the home.
Finally, there is also a need to create a small family in home with house parent as in the case of developed countries this will serve as family like parent serve as guardians to the kids.

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