STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBER OF BABIES ADMITTED IN THE MOTHERLESS BABY HOME (1995 – 2004)

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBER OF BABIES ADMITTED IN THE MOTHERLESS BABY HOME (1995 – 2004)

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

A motherless babies home is a location or home where an infant baby has no female parent. While an orphan is someone who has lost both parents prematurely due to natural causes or a disaster.

A motherless baby or person is one who does not have a female parent. Also, I am motherless. Babies homes could be defined as an institution where infant babies are kept whose mothers are dead, abandoned, or missing and are received and cared for by a charitable organization or individual, within any physical incident that occurred in a while or over a specific period of time such as war, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that leave a number of children motherless and fatherless.

A motherless baby, for example, is regarded as a servant or slave in most African countries.

1.2     AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To determine whether female babies take longer to bread than male children.

To compare the proportion of females to males in the home.

Based on my findings, I will make a recommendation regarding the abandonment of babies.

Determine the number of reported cases of on sex.

To confirm some possible cases of child abandonment.

1.3     SCOPE AND COVERAGE

This project covers the admission of inmates to the motherless babies home in Enugu for a year (1995 – 2004).

1.4     HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MOTHERLESS BABIES HOME IN ENUGU

Enugu is the capital city of the East Central State and was once the seat of government for the Eastern had an increased population due to the discovery of coal, which led to a high migration of young school learners and other youths in search of better working opportunities and living conditions.

This positive effect was accompanied by an increase in the number of natural obstacles and incidents, as well as the burdens and problems that resulted. The government of today has found it difficult to address these growing hazards, particularly the incidence of child abuse, the incidence of child abandonment, the death of a young mother during labor, and dither incidents where there is an urgent need for an immediate solution or method of prevention.

Getting rid of them.

The Childs Motherless Baby Home, an organization concerned with the relief of suffering caused by natural disasters and for assisting those who lost their parents (Orphans) through natural death or other disaster, opened a child welfare center in Enugu to cater for the motherless and abandoned babies in order to alleviate the sufferings of their fathers or other relatives who may be obligated to care for the child.

The public or individuals also contribute significantly to the upkeep of the motherless babies homes through charitable organizations, churches, and so on. Furthermore, subsidies are provided by the government through the ministry of social welfare, which also sends the majority of the inmates to the homes the Eurpses of the inmates in case

ONE MAJOR PROBLEM OF THE MOTHERLESS BABIES HOME

One of the issues with the motherless babies home is described below:

Finance: Finance is one of the major problems that homes face, for example, it costs them a large amount of money to run the homes, i.e. cost per child maintenance such as food for good refreshment, clothing, and health in the case of TU health.

1.5     THE SOCIETAL PROBLEMS OF THE MOTHERLESS BABIES

Babies are neglected as a societal problem because they are treated as slaves/servants due to their mother’s absence.