Marketing Research

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Family is the best thing that you could ever wish for. They are there for you on the ups and downs of your life and will love you no matter what happens. They are always there. It is difficult for a person specifically teenagers to live without a family especially without his or her parents. Our father and mother cannot be replaced by anyone.

Family has a great influence in our life. Even though family is considered the smallest unit in a community, but they are the one who molds us to be a better person. Our personality reflects on what is the status of our family and on what has been the teaching of our parents to us. They are also the one who is making us feel that we are loved.

But as time passed by, there are many changes occurring in families. There are many broken families nowadays that cause the increasing of numbers of family consisting only of a single parent.

So many students reflect their attitude on what family status they have, some of them have good personality but some, is bad. With this in mind, the researchers want to know if family status can affect the student performance in terms of academic.

Background of the study

Education is a basic tool used by society for transmission of its societal values. It has become an area of prime importance not only for government or voluntary agencies but also for individuals, families,Governments and communities.

Many factors and reasons have been given as being responsible for the continuous falling in the academic standard of our present educational system. These includes; attitudes of teachers to work, lack of seriousness on the part of the students, effect of the dwindled economy and to some extent the increasing degenerating moral system. Despite all possible efforts put forward by various governments and voluntary agencies to curb these trends, the country is yet to witness the rise it desires to see in the educational system....