Ojo, Adeniyi Adewale (2022) Effect of Parental Unemployment on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Nigeria. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Research, 8 (2). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2059-1209(Print), 2059-1217(Online)
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This paper examines the effect of parental unemployment on academic performance of secondary school students. Thus, the efficacy of parental unemployment is perilous social problem which contributed to the inability of many parents to caring for their children education. However, the challenges of unemployed parents contributed to the high rate of step—down many students in secondary education. Consequently, there some factors which contributes to unemployed parents in country such as shortage of industries, inexperience of people, unskilled labour and unavailable of firms. Moreover, thousands of embody men and women are unemployed in Nigeria. However they are seeking for employment opportunities, but the job is not available for them that was the reason many parents are jobless and they cannot provide their childern education pre-requisite, while some parents are not ready to work that is reason they are jobless and find it cumbersome to care for their children education. Presently, thousands of secondary school students involved various bad activities such prostitution, Yahoo, kidnapping, stealing, and other relevant offences in our country, because of inability of their parents to send them to secondary education . Yet, unemployment cause high rate of poverty which affected many patents in thirty- six states of federation includes Abuja the federal capital of Nigeria. However, the rate of drop out increasing daily basis because their parents could not perform their responsibility as parenting who have devoted to caring for their children education. Moreover, the population of unemployed parents is too high in Nigeria .
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Depositing User: | Professor Mark T. Owen |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2022 07:31 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2022 07:31 |
| URI: | https://tudr.org/id/eprint/410 |
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