BASIRAT BELLO

The study examined social work intervention strategies for victims of involuntary childlessness in Igarra community. The objectives of the study to ascertain the causes of childlessness among married couples in Igarra community, explore the effect of childlessness among married couples in Igarra community, ascertain the relationship between childlessness and socio-cultural impact in Igarra community and to examine the roles and strategy social workers employ to help victims of involuntary childlessness in Igarra community. The cross-sectional research design was adopted for this study. Three hundred(300)copies of the questionnaire were distributed to 300 respondents in the Igarra community. Data collected were analyzed using frequency count, percentages and mean, with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 24.0. The empirical result revealed that childlessness leads to denial of certain cultural rights and title in the Igarra community and that the inability to have children due to physical impediment or infertility lead to the unpleasant and absurd experiments of African women. Furthermore, the study revealed that the majority of childless women often have low coping ability when issues with respect to children are being discussed. The study recommends that a public health strategy is needed for proper prevention of infertility by reducing the risk factors to decrease the incidence of infertility and improve quality of life by avoiding the psychosocial consequences and that the role of social workers is important as well to help intervene in crises involving abuse, mental health emergencies, or trauma for childless couples.