ABSTRACT Work-life balance is a major concern for people and institutions concerned about the quality of working life relative to the broader quality of life. The study sought to investigate sources, effects and the strategies adopted to manage work-life balance by female administrators in public universities in Ghana. The study adopted the qualitative research design. The study population comprised female administrators in three public universities, representatives of human resource departme...
It is observed that most young adults in the higher institutions of learning do not think about marriage but to have fun. This rationale necessitated this study. The work focused on the role of social media in determining the disposition of undergraduates towards sex. The study also explored how these undergraduates view marriage.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent childbearing has adverse effects on both mother and child. High fertility and rapid population growth are direct consequences of early childbearing. For intervention targeting, it is crucial to know trends and determinants of adolescent childbearing. Objectives The objectives ofthis study were to: (1) describe the trends in adolescent pregnancy and childbearing in Ghana (2) determine the factors associated with adolescent childbearing and (3) describe the birt...
ABSTRACT Most previous studies regarded myths as a plethora of concocted stories: they paid little attention to dramatic myth and mythography as productive and effective in African way of life. Modernism, sequestered from the past, created directionless and questioning societies. Solutions, pre-encoded in mythologies and transmitted through generations, were jettisoned. This study, therefore, situates dramatic mythic tendencies, depictions and effects in present African way of lives with a v...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to find out the acquisition of management skills and how this stabilizes a marriage relationship in term of conflict in the home. The study was also aimed at discovering the effect of treatment on couples who attended a management skill programme and those who do not. A total of two thousand couples were selected by purposive sampling technique from ten churches in the Northern Cross River State. These couples were found to have some deficiency in manageme...
ABSTRACT African writers have pre-occupied themselves with the happenings in the society. Thus, thematic focus has always been on societal ills, one of which is female oppression. This study examines the feminist perspectives in Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina and Mobolaji Adenubi’s Empty Arms. The sociological approach was adopted, which enabled a better judgment of the characters, as presented by the writers. This research work has shown how Hilary Rouse-Amadi and Mobolaji Adenubi have rais...
ABSTRACT Divorce, single parenting and issues associated with parental status on an adolescent’s wellbeing specifically, adolescents’ depression and self-esteem has been on an increase worldwide and Ghana is no exception. This study was aimed at examining the influence of parental status on depression and self esteem of adolescents in Ghana after noticing that adolescents going through formal education face many challenging situations as a result of diverse marital issues of thei...
ABSTRACT Criticism deals with the interpretation of literary texts. The major concern of this thesis is to criticize three aspects of the society in the short stories of Chimamanda Adichie and E. C. Osondu. These include family, marriage and leadership. Seven selected stories in each collection have been examined that are relevant to the interpretation and analysis of the objective of study. To criticize these three aspects, this thesis examines Nigerian characters i...
ABSTRACT This study probes the perspective of Wojtyla’s sexual ethics regarding his views on love and responsibility and his synthesis on the ends of marriage and the morality of the use of contraception in marriage. “Love and Responsibility” is the title and the theme of his book on sexual ethics which reflects his own brand of moral philosophy. Karol Wojtyla argues against the use of contraceptives for married couples. His view is that contraceptive sexual intercourse is reductive, do...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between parenting style a person was train with, attachment style and later marital satisfaction as well as the factors affecting marital satisfaction in the Ghanaian context using concurrent mixed method design. Two hundred married participants comprising 86 males and 114 females were conveniently sampled from the Greater Accra region of Ghana for the study. Correlational survey design was used to investigate the relationship between parentin...
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ABSTRACT The family context for child development has for ages remained one of the most important contributors to the quality of child development where marital stability stays at the core of this context. The study assessed effectiveness of premarital education towards marital stability and parenting in Tanzania based on experiences from the Sandawe community in Dodoma. It had five objectives which were: i) To ascertain premarital education practices adopted towards marital stability in the ...
ABSTRACT Cohabitation is a common practice in many parts of the world including America, Europe and Africa. Cohabitation violates the teaching of the Catholic Church on the sacrament of marriage. In spite of the efforts by the Catholic Church to instill chastity, many youths in the Catholic Church do not go through church marriage, instead they choose to cohabit. The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of cohabitation among the Catholic youths in Nyando Deanery; Kisumu ...
ABSTRACT Violence against women in its various forms is endemic in communities around the world cutting across class, age, religion and national boundaries. It is one of the most pervasive human rights violations. It denies women equality, security, dignity, self worth and their right to enjoy fundamental freedoms. It destroys a woman’s sense of self, and undermines healthy families and communities. Violence poses serious mental and physical health risks on the victims. This has far-reachin...
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