EGOR COMMUNITY

THE IMPACT OF SINGLE PARENTHOOD ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT, IMPLICATION FOR SOCIAL WORK IN EGOR COMMUNITY, EDO STATE

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This study investigates the intricate impact of single parenthood on child development within the Egor Community of Edo State, Nigeria, and explores its implications for social work practice. Using a descriptive survey design, the research gathered empirical data from 300 single parents to illuminate their socio-economic realities, challenges, and perceptions of how single parenthood affects their children's cognitive, emotional, and social development, as well as the availability of support systems. The findings reveal a concerning landscape where single-parent households are disproportionately burdened by pervasive economic precarity, unstable incomes, and a striking deficit in support from both informal networks and formal structures. A particularly poignant finding is the perceived inadequacy of emotional support from family and friends, which challenges the traditional narrative of robust extended family support in African cultures. This lack of support, coupled with economic strain, leads to significant emotional overwhelm and formidable challenges in managing child behavior for single parents. These multifaceted challenges are perceived to exert profound negative influences on children's academic performance, emotional well-being, and social integration. The study, guided by Social Learning Theory and Family Systems Theory, underscores how these stressors can impede positive parental modeling and destabilize the family's emotional equilibrium. The empirical evidence also confirms a severe deficit in formal support systems, representing a systemic failure to protect a vulnerable population and making social work interventions critically urgent and foundational. The research provides a compelling empirical foundation for urgent, integrated, and culturally sensitive social work interventions aimed at bolstering the resilience and well-being of single-parent families in Egor Community
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IMPACT OF STIGMA ON SEEKING MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT IN EGOR COMMUNITY

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This study hindered impact of shame on pursuing foolish well-being support in Egor Community. This study selected the ration numerical finish for the reasoning of file calm concurrently with an activity survey management of the questionnaire. The results revealed that shame considerably frightens foolish strength help-pursuing in Egor, emphasizing the need for public knowledge, direction, and concerning the prosperity of mankind impressionable invasions; deep-rooted educational plans and impressions in Egor fuel insane health shame and negative managing, making essential target instruction and date following society commanders; shame in Egor two together deters care and decays mental strength, lacking society-affected shame-decline exertions through instruction and local alliances and social work invasions are visualized as
essential for threatening insane energy shame in Egor, following support for with regard to the welfare of mankind-experienced, multi-level game plans involving reach, education, and tactics correct. The study supported that the municipality bear start maintained foolish appropriateness awareness campaigns in the Egor organization to challenge shame, disprove imaginations, and classification as being model help-pursuing behaviour. Community public peasants bear extend foolish energy instruction programs custom-made to the local framework, bestowing conscientious beliefs, feelings, and settled explanations of
emotional disorder. Community-located interferences acknowledge chance be stimulate through social service drives to a degree peer support groups, school-located foolish substance programs, and blood relative counseling burdens to increase approach and society trouble. Integration of foolish health information into schools and arrangings
endure meet to form mental strength instruction programs into schools and society arrangements to support early knowledge and defeat intergenerational shame. Social Workers should grant permission to lead a doubled approach focus individual, blood relative, society, and bland levels to guarantee reasonable insane happiness support orders. Regularly assess the influence of shame-decline and foolish substance invasions to guide betterings and command evidence-located strategies judgments.
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