Social Development of Young Children Belonging to Broken Families - A Study

Social development of young children plays an important role in their total process of personality development. Social development is a continuous process which needs a proper home environment. Joint families are considered as ideal that they can provide a better environment for social development of young children. But due to impact of globalisation, westernisation and changes of work culture , the popularity of nuclear families increases day by day. For proper social development of young children need a better home environment with good relationship among each and every members of the family. Broken family environment usually unable to provide a proper home environment for social development of their young children. In the modern day context, number of broken families increases day by day where parents are separated due to death, divorce, remarriage , or unavoidable situations. Young children who expect parental love and care with constant physical and emotional support from their beloved parents are deprived in broken families. This problem is more serious in nuclear broken families than joint broken families. Therefore it is an urgent need to study the problems of social development of such children from various angles. The investigator has selected greater Guwahati as the area of the study where 288 broken families has selected as sample family having school going young children of early childhood. For collecting primary data , the investigator has prepared self- made questionnaire for parents and teachers . Observation method has been used for collecting required data from those sample young children. Statistical methods have been used to analyse the collected data.