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The Onyenualagu (Godparent) in Traditional and Modern African Communities

The Onyenualagu (Godparent) in Traditional and Modern African Communities THE ONYENUALAGU (GODPARENT) IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN AFRICAN COMMUNITIES for Juvenile Implications Delinquency J. A. SOFOLA University of Ibadan, Nigeria Concerns about the of have etiology juvenile delinquency made the home a focal the &dquo;bad home always point, especially In the there to be three literature, background.&dquo; appear different kinds of homes. And kinds of home we mean a by cluster of endemic factors which characterize that home and by which the one kind of home can be differ- characteristically entiated from another. The first is the sort of home which is where there is defective where the broken, vicious, discipline, are defective the between family relationships (i.e., relationships the themselves and between and and parents parents children) where there is some disorder in the The main personal parents. characteristic of this kind of home is viciousness. The parental second of home is not broken or vicious but there is type defective The relations are discipline. interparental defective, there is some disorder in the and the personal parents, parent- child are bad. The main characteristic relationships extremely here is and moral parental neglect; physical, emotional, children left to run wild without The third neglect, supervision. 21 22 kind of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Black Studies SAGE

The Onyenualagu (Godparent) in Traditional and Modern African Communities

Sofola, J.A.
Journal of Black Studies , Volume 14 (1): 10 – Sep 1, 1983
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THE ONYENUALAGU (GODPARENT) IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN AFRICAN COMMUNITIES for Juvenile Implications Delinquency J. A. SOFOLA University of Ibadan, Nigeria Concerns about the of have etiology juvenile delinquency made the home a focal the &dquo;bad home always point, especially In the there to be three literature, background.&dquo; appear different kinds of homes. And kinds of home we mean a by cluster of endemic factors which characterize that home and by which the one kind of home can be differ- characteristically entiated from another. The first is the sort of home which is where there is defective where the broken, vicious, discipline, are defective the between family relationships (i.e., relationships the themselves and between and and parents parents children) where there is some disorder in the The main personal parents. characteristic of this kind of home is viciousness. The parental second of home is not broken or vicious but there is type defective The relations are discipline. interparental defective, there is some disorder in the and the personal parents, parent- child are bad. The main characteristic relationships extremely here is and moral parental neglect; physical, emotional, children left to run wild without The third neglect, supervision. 21 22 kind of

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Published: Sep 1, 1983

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