Social Welfare Services and Broken Homes, The Role of Social Work Practice in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State
Keywords:
Social welfare, Broken homes, Family, SocietyAbstract
The study examined social welfare services and broken homes – its causes and effects on the family and society, as well as the role of social work practice in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State. Four (4) research objectives that included: To ascertain the frequency rate of broken homes, to identify and examine the various causes and effects of broken homes and to determine the role of social work practice in Eleme LGA and research questions that guided the study. This is borne out of the fact that the challenge of broken home has remained a recurrent issue in the Nigerian society; it becomes imperative to examine the causes, effects and resolution using Eleme Local Government Area as a study area. The descriptive survey research design and the cluster sampling technique were adopted as method and framework for this study with the aim of educating the readers on the menace of this phenomenon and also to determine the role of social welfare services as regards to broken homes in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State as a case study. One hundred and forty (140) people comprised mostly of females selected from five wards (Ogale, Alesa, Akpajo, Alode, and Aleto) out of the ten wards in Eleme Local Government Area and obtained using a two-stage cluster sampling technique formed the sample size for this study. A self-completion questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using tables, pie and bar charts.
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