By :Ajaero Esther
Iwuji Uchechi
Diochi Cynthia
Arindu Ezinne
INTRODUCTION
Civilization can best be described as an organized culture encompassing communities or nations on the stage of people or system of social, political or technical development and over the years, Nigerians have continued to borrow the current trend of living from the civilized countries including their marriage and family life style.
Single parenthood meanwhile, is gradually becoming an accepted norm in the world with most single ladies feeling at ease raising a child out of wedlock.
Trumpeta – societal issues crew went into the street to ascertain how people feel about single parent and the effects to the victims. The following are excerpts from our finding
(A) Name=Barrister Kingsley Ogbonna
Age = 33yrs
(1) I don’t ascribe to single parenthood.
(2) Being raised by a single parent has many side effects on a child amongst them is the incompleteness the child faces in his/her upbringing. There is no gain repeating the fact that two heads is better than one. Thus, both parents will do a better job in raising the child than when one parent raises the child. Furthermore, a child needs the warmth, love and unity of both parents and those ingredients lacks when a child is being raised by a single parent. It also affects the child’s name negatively. Also being raised by a single parent makes the child to lack the required discipline associated with both parents. The single parent may not have enough time for parenting the child the proper way and this depends most on the kind of job the parent does.
(3) I think a mother will make a better single parent.
Name= Mejulu Vitalis Chizoba
Age = 29yrs
(1) I don’t support single parent because of the impacts it will have on the child and society at large. More so, children are blessings from marriage therefore children needs a lot of care and time and as such can’t be controlled easily by one parent.
(2) Single parent training will affect the growth of the child psychologically, emotionally and financially.
(3) Mothers are the best because of their special bond with the child from the womb. More so there is no substitute to mother care and that is what the child needs.
Name =Nneka Ihejimba
Age = 28yrs
(1) Children who are raised by a single parent are likely a threat to the society so I don’t ascribe to it.
(2) A child raised by a single parent will be affected in education. Sometimes he/she will end up being a school dropout; some might even end up being a drug addict, prostitution, cultist etc.
(3) 100 percent sure. The mother will make a better single.
Name = Nnoli Emmanuel
Age =27yrs
(1) No I don’t ascribe to it at all because it has many negative implications on the child. A single parent cannot and will never do all the things necessary in the upbringing of the child.
(2) It has a bad effect on the child’s growth in the sense that a single parent cannot be able to solve the child’s financial, academic and other needs that are vital in a child’s upbringing.
(3) Some might say father and others mother but for me there is no how I will compare my mother’s love to me to my father’s love to me. So mothers are the best when it comes to single parent care to his/her child.
Name =Mrs. Iheanacho Glory
Age = 35yrs
(1) No because it has done more harm than good in our society.
(2) I think It should be abolish though I know is not easy but effort should be made towards achieving that. Also it can lead the child from coping the people’s behavior no matter how good or bad since the child is bound to take the parent footstep.
(3) Mothers because they are more careful when it comes to family issues while the fathers are mostly concerned with how to make money through their business in order to move it to greater height.
Name = Chigozie Oparaji
Age = 25yrs
(1) No I don’t support to single parenthood.
(2) Of course it does a lot of harm to the child because he/ she doesn’t get adequate care and support from just a parent, the training is one sided. At times things get difficult and it forces the child to go into heinous activities.
(3) Personally, I think the mother does the work more than the father. She carried the child for 9 months in her womb. She will understand the child more than the father and will devote more time to her child trying to balance the equation.
(B) Name =Ugochi Nzekwe
Age = 26yrs
(1) No I don’t support single parenthood.
(2) Well personally I’m being nurtured and trained by a single parent so I’m a testifier based on the harm it does. It’s a 50 – 50 things and it goes a long way to demoralize the child. I’m been trained by just my mum and I know the stress she goes through to see that we grow up responsible. She is doing all this because of us and I guess if the other parent that’s the father then things will be a lot easier. However, I’m not saying I’m not well brought up ooo (laughs) but to a reasonable extent you find out that the child even if not affected physically; psychologically it will definitely have an adverse effect.
(3) The mother of course does the work better, I know how much my mum devotes her time to us. She a times stays with us during the weekends. We catch fun, go for picnics etc. the father can do that too but I’m talking from experience. The mum does the work much better.
