Changing Family structures/values and -the Incidence of Human Trafficking in Edo State

Abstract 

This paper attempts to unravel the underpinning factors that account to  upsurge of human trafieking in Edo State, Nigeria. The discourse is hinged a the Mertonian concept of innovation which explains the circumvention of societal mainstream values and employed as a circuit and routes to achieving species collectively subscribed goals. The aims and objective of the study include:

identifying the changes in family structures that predispose parents to trafficking their child examining the changes in family values that predispose parents to trafficking ; discussing the perception of parents abmt fraflcking their children and Jnally explaining the reasons for the persistence of human traflcking despite attempts to curb+f. Focus group discussion (FGD) and indepth interview method were used in collecting data. The study revealed that parents are predisposed to their children due to pmertyI unemployment, & feed, ignorance, illiteracy, polygyny, distartion of social values, dysfunctional famlies among others