Family Impact On Vocation Discernment Among De La Salle Brothers In Lwanga District, Kenya.

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dc.contributor.authorOlabanjo, Wole Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-23T08:38:37Z
dc.date.available2021-02-23T08:38:37Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis study explored family impact on vocation discernment among De La Salle Brothers in Lwanga District, Kenya. Though family impact on vocation discernment can be both positive and negative, the researcher dwelt more in exploring the negative impact. The objectives of the study include exploring the impact of parents on the vocation discernment of aspirants to the Religious Life among the De La Salle Brothers; to study the impact of pressure for financial family support on temporary professed Brothers. The study was carried out among 90 targeted population and 90 sampling population, in Lwanga District of Africa, an Anglophone Province of the De La Salle Brothers Congregation in the Catholic Church. The Province comprises of six countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, with the headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The study has been able to find out the impact of family pressure on professed Brothers and young men aspiring to join the congregation. This impact could be negative or positive. When the family plays its role of good family upbringing, family prayers and bible reading, family devotion, unity and love in the family, parents’ faithfulness to each other, and participation in religious activities in the parish, there is positive impact on the child. All these prepare fertile ground for the child later in life to choose Religious Life of the Brothers. However, when the family fails in its role of proper upbringing, it has negative impact on the child. The research used a mixed method design comprised both qualitative and quantitative methods. The data was collected by the use of questionnaires and interview guide. The quantitative data was analyzed and presented in percentages and numbers while the qualitative data was analyzed according to the emerging themes in line with the research objectives. The study suggested some intervention strategies for addressing family impact on vocation to religious life among the Brothersen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/1196
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectVocation Discernmenten_US
dc.subjectConsecrated Religious Vocation in the Churchen_US
dc.subjectAspirants to Religious Lifeen_US
dc.subjectImpact of Parents on Vocational Discernmenten_US
dc.subjectImpact of Pressure for Family Support on Faithfulnessen_US
dc.subjectPressure to Beget Offspring on Faithfulness to Religious Vocationen_US
dc.titleFamily Impact On Vocation Discernment Among De La Salle Brothers In Lwanga District, Kenya.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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