Parents’ Attitude towards their Children’s Education: A Survey

Abstract

Attitude is crucial for success in personal and professional life. Parental attitude refers to parents' perspective on their child, influencing their choices, actions, and personality. Supportive or suppressive parenting attitudes can impact children's flourishing. An appropriate attitude includes hope and reasonable expectations. The current study was designed to identify the parents’ attitude towards education of their male and female children in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The study was descriptive in nature. The study was delimited to the parents of certain urban and rural areas from district Bahawalpur due to shortage of time and resources which consists of urban as well as rural areas. For this study, 391 parents were randomly selected as a sample. The collected data was entered into SPSS software for analysis. Later on, the data analysis was exported to the word office to tabulate correctly. First of all frequency and percentage were calculated and T-test was used for comparing the data. The results of the study indicated that parents give equal importance to the education of their male and female children. Parents don't consider girls source of earning. On the other hand, some parents are broad minded in the provision of higher education to their girls and some examples were noted by the researchers. It was also found that the daughters earn money for their family members. It was recommended that parents should pay full attention to their male and female children. The researchers’ conclusion with suggestions and recommendations was also summed up at the end of the study.