The Effect Of The Orphanage Home On The Child Personality Development

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

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 childpersonality development in the later parts of his life.    

The Kaduna orphanage home is the birth child of JammiyyarMatanArewa.

The JamiyarMatanArewa 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 JammiyarMatanArewa which took place in the house of General Hassan UsmanKatsina 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.

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.

Purpose of the Study

1.     Find out the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.      

2.     Determine the effect of orphanage home on child’s personality development.       

3.     Find out the morale and attitude of children raised in orphanage home.

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.

ResearchQuestions.

1.     What are the positive and negative impact of orphanage home on the child’s personality development.

2.     What are the likely effect of orphanage home on the child personality.

3.     What are the morale and attitude acquired by children raised in the orphanage home.

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.

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.