Effects of Emotionally Absent Parents on the Behaviour of Adolescents in Selected Secondary Schools in Machakos County, Kenya

Abstract

Secondary schools in Kenya are the aboard of thousands of adolescents, whose needs cannot be ignored or wished away without future dire consequences to both the students and "the world at large. Cases of misbehavior in secondary schools have become very common and although school administrators are doing a lot to contain the situation, there is still much more that need to be accomplished in order to reduce misbehavior in Kenyan secondary schools to negligible levels. Cases of homosexuality, lesbianism, truancy, sexual immorality, delinquency, drug abuse, devil worship and many other cases of misbehavior have become very common in our secondary schools in spite of the efforts being made by the school administrators....