Abstract
D.Ed. (Educational Psychology)
As a family constitutes the primary educational relationship of a child, and
a child's development depends almost entirely on these relationships, it
stands to reason that one would expect children with well-balanced
personalities to be found in families characterized by a reasonable degree of
sound family relationships that ensure concern, care, love and guidance.
This is because men and women are not only themselves; they are also the
region in which they were born, the city apartment or farm where they
learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they
overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they
participated in, the poems they read and the God they believe in. Man is
thus not only himself, but also what his environment makes of him (Purkey,
1970:34; Loubser, 1993: 13). It can,therefore, be concluded that children
who grow up in an unhealthy family will probably grow up unhealthy as a
result...