A Healthy Christian Family as the Panacea for Nigeria Socio-Economic Woes: A Religious Perspective in Mbaise Area of Imo State

Abstract

A family is the bedrock of every given society such as Nigeria. A family is the coming together of two opposite sex individuals to make a union. The coming together will bear fruit such that the children will be produced from such union. The family will be saddled with the responsibility of training, directing, guiding and providing for the children who will grow into adulthood. The children will start their own family life hence the society is formed from the different unions created by the family. Getting it right from the family will amount to a better society. The socio-economic woes of Nigeria can be corrected if we go back to the family and get it right.  A healthy family is a family that produced healthy or sound children who will feed the society with sound, and good, progressive and productive ideas that will encourage sound living in the given society like Nigeria. The dearth of morals in our society today is a function of the decline in the trainings in our various families. One cannot rule out environmental, influences and socio-economic influence in Nigeria. One can imagine a well trained child being  faced with hunger, insecurity etc, how the child will cope with  such moral burden to remain sound in the face of obvious treat to its existence as a human being. The data is gathered through primary sources and secondary sources. The primary sources include but not limited to oral interview, questionnaires, telephone conversations and group interviews. The secondary sources adopted in this research work is not confined only to journals, books  internet  family associations, minutes of meetings, unions, newspapers etc. the work adopts approaches such as sociological approach and historical approach. Sociological approach reviews the coming together of two opposite sex individual to produce a home known as a family. Two individuals relate together as one despite coming from different training grounds to form another training atmosphere for their children. Historical approach will have to review in the past how healthy families have helped to influence a healthy society. It will also throw more light on how a good family can help to handle the socio-economic woes of Nigeria. This research work presents that the healthy family can only be the solution to handle the socio-economic woes of Nigeria by positing that parents should go back to the family to train their children to shun cultism, armed robbery, kidnapping, stealing, cheating, telling of lies, child labour, child trafficking but encourage them to engage in hard work, productive adventures, moral values that should support the society, a health society should be encouraged.