ABSTRACT Child adoption, which could be a socially-responsive gesture or a solution for infertility, is gradually becoming culturally acceptable in Nigeria. This paper focuses on analyzing policies and practices of child adoption in Nigeria. It examines policies regulating adoption practices and explores knowledge and attitude towards child adoption, as well as socio-cultural issues in child adoption practices across Nigeria. Secondary data mainly policy documents, existing studies and review...
Abstract The Ghana Police Service (GPS) relies to a large extent on human labour. Motivation is critical in service delivery in the area of protection of lives and property, maintenance of law and order, as well as public safety and internal security. This study, therefore, adopted the needs-based theory in examining the perceptions of personnel salary, training, promotion and fringe benefits as a set of motivational tools. In addition, study assesses the perceptions of personnel of manageria...
ABSTRACT Oil discovery in developing nations is usually met with celebrations and excitement but is later turned into disappointment. This study investigated the socio-economic impact of the oil and gas discovery in Ghana on both Atuabo and Sanzule in the Ellembelle District. The objectives of the study were to explore the changes in the two communities after the oil and gas discovery, to examine how oil and gas discovery has changed family lives, opportunity for work, education and finally t...
This study investigated how ownership of television stations, the social structure of the Nigerian society and the deregulation of the broadcasting industry influence the reportage and presentation of news on television in the country. The research further investigated how preferential access in news reportage is given to different social classes in Nigeria. The methodology for this research is both through use of primary sources: Focus Group Discussions (FGDs); Semi-structured Intervie...
ABSTRACT The SSNIT Pension scheme was instituted (coverted from Provident Fund) in 1991 with the promulgation of PNDC Law 247 to pay benefits in the event of some specified contingencies namely: old age, death and invalidity. The study focused on the old age benefits paid to retired workers (contributors) which is deemed as a replacement of their lost income. Benefits paid range between fifty and eighty percent of ones best three years' salary. Though the system has been in operation for some...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effectiveness of services delivered by the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) in inter-country adoption procedures. Qualitative research methods were employed and data were collected through in-depth interviews and documentary analysis. Twenty three participants were drawn from officers of the Department of Social Welfare, Judicial Service, adoption facilitators, biological parents of adopted children, and personnel from Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the ...
ABSTRACT One of the hallmarks of our rapidly evolving democratic culture as a nation has been the relentlessness with which we have subjected every social institution to scrutiny through open debate and discussion. Consistent with this culture of debate, there has been a flurry of criticisms and commentaries about the institution of Chieftaincy. Not surprisingly, no consensus on the relevance of the institution in the midst of a modern nation-state has so far been achieved. One side of the de...
ABSTRACT Until recently, fertility and family planning research in developing countries, as well as policy and programme formulation, has generally relied on data collected from women. Increasingly, however, attention is being paid to the inclusion of men. Although women bear children and most modern contraceptives are female cantered, childbearing has an impact on men's lives too. This impact may be felt financially, if men accept the responsibility of supporting their children, and in a ran...
ABSTRACT The main thrust of this thesis has been to examine Erving Goffman's typology of a Total Institution in the light of Ghanaian psychiatric institutions. In the typology Goffman classifies mental hospitals as Total Institutions. The typology came into being when he was examining psychiatric institutions in western cultures. A central problem that was posed in the Thesis was to see whether Goffman's typology has applicability in the Ghanaian cultural environment taking into consideration...
ABSTRACT The study entitled “Determinants of Career Change among Holders of Higher Degree: The Case of University of Ghana Employees” was undertaken to ascertain the major factors which influence individuals to change their careers at certain stages of their working life. The purposive and snowballing sampling techniques were used to select twenty-five members of faculty willing to participate in the study. A concurrent mixed-methods approach was adopted. Specifically, the study aimed at ...
ABSTRACT Children are socialized into adult roles in society through the process of socialization particularly through the family which is the first contact point of any child into the open world of human relations. Socialization forms differ from one society to the other, in Nigeria there are three major ethnic groups in addition to about two hundred and forty seven minor ones, the pattern and forms of socialization among these ethnic nationalities differ. Ethnic identities and loyalty are b...
ABSTRACT This paper is on the rational choice theory and the choice of healthcare services for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria. It focuses on the factors that influence or determine the choice malaria treatment using the rational choice theory as the basis. It was discovered that there were many determinants of what informs the maximum utility but it is all wrapped up in the organization of the health care system. Hence, in choosing treatment for malaria, factors like; perceived and actua...
ABSTRACT Women and children die everyday from the scourge of maternal and infant! mortality due to the poor primary health care system in most rural communities and as such, this study intends " to explore factors influencing utilisation of traditional birth attendants' services by pregnant women and nursing mothers with children-; 5 years old in Ikole LGA of Ekiti State, Nigeria in a typical rural Yoruba community.
ABSTRACT Malaria has been identified as the single most important infectious disease in children, being responsible for the death of about one million children per year or 25 percent o f all childhood deaths worldwide. Most clinical cases of the disease occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria may also contribute to the severity of other childhood diseases and repeated infections can be a cause of chronic anaemia in children due to their relatively weak immune system. About one million children ...
ABSTRACT With the exception of the spread of nuclear weaponry and threats td global ecological systems, population growth is the most pressing and urgent issue currently faced by humanity.