The Influence of Househelps on Child Behaviour
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2016
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Ideally, children are brought up well when both wife and husband give substantial attention
to their children. However, due to the increase in economic demands, in major cities and
growing towns in the world, there is an increasing number of couples both in paid
employment. This makes the couples to leave their homes before children wake up and return
to the homes when children are actually retiring to bed. This increasing trend in both couples
working has led to children being raised by care-takers or house-helps. This phenomena is
raising a concern, as one wonders, do the house-helps possess the spiritual values that need to
be imparted on children? Is the phenomenon of raising children through care-takers the best
model? What can be done so that children, from working couples, are raised in a holistic
manner? This article explores ways that can help bring up a child in a holistic way faced with
challenges of work. The research used exploratory qualitative design targeting working
couples. The findings were that house-helps need training for proper child-upbringing and
that couples need to be available for their children. The implication of the research is that
policy makers need to design appropriate programs in building capacity for house-helps,
policies for conducive work environment for raising children and programs that would help
families to balance work and family.
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child development, working couples, house-helps, work-family balance