EFFECT OF BROKEN HOMES AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES

Abstract

Parent laid the foundation for the desired social, moral, emotional, spiritual and intellectual well being of their children. The training a child receives from home is of great importance in his or her total personality formation and his or her academic performance in his or her total personality formation and his or her academic performance. It is also observed that the pattern of life in the home, the economic and social status of the family in the community and many others conditions that give the home a distinctive character which influence the performance of children in schools.
Children, differ in various ways as a result of their home background such as socio-economic status, parental attitude to school and child rearing practice. These home background variables are also found to be positively related to children’s academic performance, more especially at primary school students that needs care and love (Abdulganiyu, 1999).