Influence of Family Religious Denomination and Birth Order on Prostitution Tendencies Mong Students of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki

Abstract

This study determined the influence of family religious denomination and child birth order on prostitution tendencies among Ebonyi state university female students. Using the multistage sampling technique a total of 299 female students who consented to be part of the study was enrolled. Descriptive research survey was adopted for the study. A self developed questionnaire titled the influence of family religious denomination and birth order on prostitution tendencies (IFRDBO) which was validated by 5 experts in the department of human kinetics and health education were used for data collection. While frequency table, pie chart, bar chart and percentage was used to describe the prostitution tendencies among the students, chi-square statistics was used to test the formulated hypotheses at an alpha level of 0.05. Major findings of the study showed that prostitution tendencies were high among 61.54% of the female students while 38.46 had low prostitution tendencies. It was also observed that child birth order had significant influence on prostitution tendencies but religious denomination did not significantly influence prostitution tendencies among the students. Recommendations were therefore made which include among others that universities and the state government of state universities should reduce financial burden on students through the establishment of affordable school fees and lecturers who are in the habit of exploiting students financially and sexually should be sourced and punished severely.