Home Variable And Mal-adjusted Behavior Among Adolescents

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The home is a mini society and the society grows out of the home. The child is conceived at home and born at home, so the home is its first port of call (Odunukwe, 2008). The child moves from the home to the community and then to the society at large. According to Ikulayo (2003) the home is the first social contact in any human groupings and it is seen by sociologists as the microcosm (or a replica) of a society. At home, the interaction among various variables goes a long way in determining the type of behavior children are likely to exhibi…