Child Abuse and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Central Senatorial District of Cross River State.

Pa Okpechi

doi:10.4314/gjedr.v12i1.7

Abstract

The need to provide research information about the prevalence of street hawking, its effects and educational factors was the focus of this research. The focus of this study is on street hawking as an aspect of child labour, abuse and neglect. The goal of the research on child abuse and academic performance of children who participate in it as a routine scholars and people have defined child labour in several ways. In a nutshell it is the exploitation of children, premature assumption of adult roles on the part of children; working long hours for low wages.in the central senatorial district in Cross River State of Nigeria, has three main purposes: to identify the extent of students involvement in street hawking. Secondly, determine the factors, which influence students involvement in street hawking and lastly to compare the relationship between street hawking and academic performance of those who are engaged in the activities with those who do not. The data used in testing the hypothesis were gotten from the post-test scores of all the subjects. Hypothesis were tested at. 0.5 level of significance. Based on the results of the hypotheses, recommendations were made.Keywords: Child Labour, Abuse, Street Hawking, Academic Performance and Effect.

Highlights

Differences in academic performance of students under the same conditions of teaching, have, overtime given the researcher a cause for concern
To establish the cause of low or high academic performance have been the target whereas the researcher interaction with students of high academic performance shows that they came from well-to-do homes, live comfortable life and are exposed to condusive environment
According to United Nations (1959), the issue of child abuse is something that has been in existence for many years

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Introduction

Differences in academic performance of students under the same conditions of teaching, have, overtime given the researcher a cause for concern. Interaction with students of poor academic performance shows that most of them came from poor or broken homes, with little or no means of livelihood, they need to fend for themselves. This exposes them to emotional and psychological instability. A child is said to be abused if he or she is denied basic rights like any other citizen In essence, he is subjected to a lot of maltreatment and forced to live under the most un-conducive atmosphere. Child abuse takes many forms, for example, child labour, sexual abuse, child deprivation, neglect, physical and psychological child abuse, children used in rituals, battering, early marriage, child soldering, child prostitution, children used in street hawking, human trafficking, child abandonment to mention but a few (Waboso, 2000, Okpechi, (2005)

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