CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

The child’s parents are the greatest influence on his/her development in two indisputable ways. Firstly, parents provide the child with his/her biological heritage. Secondly, they organize his/her life. Parents within this family structure, act as socializing agent in providing goals and value system from which the child develops various patterns of behaviours.

In some situations, parents adopt care free attitude towards the learning of their children, even their social orientation, and this has in many instances, caused the low academic performance of children even their maladaptive behaviours in their immediate society (Hake, 1999).

According to Ndubuisi (2005) there is a positive correlation between parental attitude and children’s social orientation and academic achievement. Ndubuisi is of the opinion that parents’ dimensions of value placement on their children’s well-being or otherwise significantly affects the child’s positive or negative adaptation to his/her society.

As Adeleke (2000) puts it, parents who place positive value on their children, care for them very well by providing them with necessary amenities at home which help to facilitate their educational careers, and by providing medical care and nurturing them morally. The resultant effect is the moulding of good behaved children who are well adjusted to their immediate environment.

Uzomah (2006) postulates that if parents exhibit positive values in terms of providing for their children’s education, such children who are well catered for, will no doubt, be high academic achievers, while those whose parents place negative values on their education will grow up to be low achievers in their educational career. This will equally show in their poor social adjustment to their larger communities.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Parents’ attitudes play important role in the social and academic lives of their children. For instance, parents who place negative values on the academic career of children will not provide them with the necessary books, school uniforms and pocket money for feeding. They will not also give the children good and nutritious diets that would cause them to grow rapidly and to be more intelligent. The result of this is poor academic performance by the children. In terms of their social orientations, children would not behave well in their society, if their parents display negative values in the method of bringing them up in the right dimension. This study is embarked upon as a result of the concern for the influence of parental value system on success orientation among adolescents in the society.

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