ABSTRACT

This article aims to figure out the impacts of single parental family due to father migration on overall development of their children left-behind. For this purpose, study focusing on the impact of absence of father in order to examined the father’s role in child development and personality making. Besides, the effect of father’s absence, this study also aimed to explore the role and responsibilities of Single mother being a single parent from the perspectives of children, focusing on the experiences of prolonged parent-child separation. This is a qualitative study that obtained the data from 20 families of migrant including mothers, children and grandparents. The results revealed that children with absent fathers evident many internalized developmental and behavioral problems such as sadness and depression, sex role difficulties, social functioning and lower self-esteem. Keywords: Father Migration, overall development, left behind
Publication date: 01/07/2020

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.7.5076