Journal of Islamic Education Students
Vol 2, No 1: May 2022

Moral Problems and Mothers’ Efforts to Educate Children in Single Parent Families

Lastri Fatli Ashari (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Fuady Anwar (UIN Imam Bonjol)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2022

Abstract

Family has a crucial responsibility to give the basic and foremost educations that determine children’s moral in the future. This study aims to find out the moral problems of children from single parent families and mother's efforts to educate the children. This was qualitative research using case study design. Data were collected by carrying out in-depth interviews to ten selected informants using purposive sampling technique. Data analysis referred to Miles and Huberman’s. Overall, the study found eight children’s moral problems that were categorized into two aspects, they were obedience (ignoring parents) and personality problems such as gambling, fighting, stealing, being promiscuous, being badly affected by online game, lying, and dating. To overcome the moral problems, single mothers did three ways to educate their children, namely giving advice, exemplary, and punishment.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jies

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Journal of Islamic Education Students (JIES) with ISSN 2797-0108 (Online) and 2797-0116 (Print), published by the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training of Universitas Islam Negeri Mahmud Yunus batusangkar. Journal of Islamic Education Students (JIES) is published twice a year; in May and ...