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
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.
1.4 Research Questions.
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.
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.