Family Instability Implication For Child Upbringing

Introduction
Background of Study
A family can be recognized as a unit of people who have agreed to live together as father, mother and children. It is a single protective umbrella in the wider society.
As an umbrella it protects, covers or shield it members from the buffeting characteristics of a wider society. It is an institution that protects, covers, shield and nurture it members.
Nwobi (1996) family members are important to each other and offer each other love and support.
The family protects its members from exeternal attach, by proving food, clothes shelter and care. The young ones grow to trust the family as a place of peace and comfort sharing their problem with the family member than outsiders. This is because family members respect and love each other and would like to keep their secret. It is not ideal for family member to expose each other secret; they are supposed to bear each other burden.
Chukwuemeka (1999) defined family as a set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed upon relationship or adoption who shares the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for the members.
Nwobi (1997) defined family instability as a situation where the family knows no peace poor structure and organization, emotional separation of members and poor relationship with relation in-laws.
Josh billings (2008) defined upbringing children as the rearing of children, especially the care love and guidance given by parents.
It is the way that your parents care for you and teach you behave when growing up.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
However, in recent time, it has been observed that family instability I Nigeria has increased especially in Umuchiatu, Obe Nkanu West Local Government Area Enugu State.
This phenomenon has resulted into various social problems as a result of unchecked effects by the social welfare, government, and individual themselves. Children brought up in such homes encounter problems moving from mother to father in order meet their needs and when they cannot cope with the situation they indulge in various social vices like truancy, robbery, stealing, drug trafficking, prostitution and other socially vices.
These normally affect the society as a whole because family is the nucleus of the bedrock of the society.
Why am interested in this topic is to enable me to know the cause of family instability, as a newly married woman when it occurs in my family or around me, I will advice them and bring solution to their problem.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this study is to investigate family instability , implication for child upbringing in Umuchiatu Obe Nkanu West Local Government Area. Specifically the study will investigate:
1. The causes of family instability in Umuchiatu Obe Nkanu West Local Government Area, Enugu State.
2. Identify the effects of family instability on children in Umuchiatu Obe Nkanu West Local Government Area, Enugu State
3. The likely solution to family instability in Umuchiate Obe Nkanu Local Government Area, Enugu State.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope was focused to the family instability; implication
for child upbringing. In Umuchiatu Obe Nkanu Local
Government Area, Enugu State.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The study would be of great important to many distressed
families, intending couples intellectual community, welfare
officers, parents and society at large.
The study will help distressed families to know or root of
their problems and how to handle or solve them.
It will also make couple in Nigeria especially in Umuchiatu, Obe Nkanu West to take and nurture their families and also bear in mind that family makes the children to suffer.
This study would encourage parents to try as much as possible to create a peaceful and loving home for the benefit of their children’s education social and psychological lives

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The researcher formulated the following research questions to guide the study.
i. What are the causes of family instability in Umuchiatu Obe Nkanu West Local Government Enugu State?
ii. What are the effects of family instability on upbringing children in Umuchiatu, obe Nkanu West Local Government Area Enugu State?
iii. What are thr lkelysolutions to family instability in Umuchiatu, Obe Nkanu West Local Government Area Enugu State?
iv. Also bear in mind that family instability makes the children to suffer.
v. This study would encourage parents to try as much as possible to create a peaceful and loving home for the benefit of their children’s education social and psychological lives.
vi. The study would expose the problems and devastating effects on the family to the society, it will also help to maintain peace and stability in society because when our families are stable and our society will be paradise on earth.
The beneficial of this study are the intending couples, newly married couple, and the distressed families in intellectual community’s welfare officers, parents and society at large.