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The document discusses several home factors that can affect a student's academic performance, including marital disharmony between parents, lack of interaction between parents and children, and low socioeconomic status. Marital strife at home can negatively impact a child's emotional stability and studies. Many parents are too busy to spend time with their children or leave childcare to domestic helpers with little education experience. A student's family income determines the type of school and resources they have access to, putting those from lower-income families at a disadvantage. The document also notes that involving children in family decision-making can help develop their self-confidence and self-esteem.

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RRL Foreign Literature

The document discusses several home factors that can affect a student's academic performance, including marital disharmony between parents, lack of interaction between parents and children, and low socioeconomic status. Marital strife at home can negatively impact a child's emotional stability and studies. Many parents are too busy to spend time with their children or leave childcare to domestic helpers with little education experience. A student's family income determines the type of school and resources they have access to, putting those from lower-income families at a disadvantage. The document also notes that involving children in family decision-making can help develop their self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Foreign Literature

Olufunminiyi (2015), There are several indices of home factors that are affecting the performance of a
students at school which will be enumerated below. One of the major home factors that causes poor
academic performance of students in school is marital disharmony between parents. Instability of the
home or regular misunderstandings between the parents can mar the academic success of a child. A
turbulent home or home full of strife with constant disagreement and fighting will affect the emotional
stability of the child, which will subsequently affect his studies. According to the scientists, at least 5 out
of 10 homes are faced with matrimonial dispute while the rate of divorce is on the increase every day.
Also, lack of substantial time for interaction and communication with children has marred the academic
potential of many children and turned them into deviants. Many parents are too busy to know what is
going on in the lives of their children. Some parents left the care of their children at the mercy of a
domestic help that knows next to nothing as regards educational assistance he/ she can render to make
a child succeed academically. Other major contributing factors to a student’s failure in school can be
linked to the socio- economic status of the parents. There is a relationship between the socio-economic
status of the parent and academic performance of the student because the higher the income of the
family, the greater the parent’s ability to provide for the educational needs of the students and vice
versa. The student’s family income will determine the kind of school he or she goes to, the kind of
environment they live, the exposure he or she has etc. A student whose parents cannot afford internet
access, while all his colleagues benefit from such, would be disadvantaged as regards reading more on a
particular subject area.

Home interactions of family members at home are frequent. The head of the family communicates
messages to family members to perform home related activities at home and outside of it. The tune,
words and approach in communication reflects the attitude of the head of the family and the reply of
family members to the head of the family has the same ingredients which also constitutes their attitude
towards the head of the family and his/her communication. Besides, family decisions are major factor
that involve in-depth interactions of the family members. It is the stage from where the importance of
family member say/opinion can be judged. Families that involve children in their decision-making
process enable their children to have self-confidence develop’ their self-esteem and thus contribute
towards social development of students (Codjoe, 2007, Hussain & Naz, 2013; Ewumi, 2006).

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