COUNSELLING FOR FAMILY WELL - BEING AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG STREET GIRLS IN ABUJA MUNICIPAL FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY NIGERIA

Abstract

The research investigated counselling for family wellbeing and moral development among street girls in Abuja Municipal FCT, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Four research questions were formulated to guidethe study. The null hypotheses were adopted and analyzed at 0.05 level of significance for the study. The population of the study comprised 180 participants. The sample consisted of 120 respondents made up of 60 street girls, 20 professional counsellors and 40 households randomly selected from the population of the study. This instrument used for the study was questionnaire titled Counselling for Family Wellbeing and Moral Development among Street Girls Questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha Statistics that yielded 0.72 reliability coefficient index. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questionswhile the two hypotheses were tested using t-test statistic at 0.05 level of significance.The mean cut-off benchmark of 2.50 and above was considered as agreed while below 2.50 was considered as disagreed. The findings revealed that factors influencing the girl child involvement in street activities in the study area include lack of financial resources, unemployment of parents and family disintegration among others. Recommendation was made that –The girl child should be involved in capacity building skills, job opportunities and empowered with self –reliant enterprises to enable them generate incomes as well as become employers of labours positively