THE CAUSES OF MORAL DECADENCE IN CHILDREN: PROFFERING ISLAMIC ANTIDOTE

In any given society, the responsibility of child upbringing falls largely upon the parents. But it does not stop there as the family and society at large have a lot to offer in moulding the moral character of any child. If a child is not given proper moral upbringing when growing up, that will pose a serious threat to the society. This work tries to look at phases of child upbringing and the problems responsible for the formation and deformation of habits as lack of proper upbringing results in the child growing up with and also learning all sorts of bad behaviours ranging from truancy to juvenile delinquency to adult criminality (a lots of criminal tendencies at the adult stage of life). The methodology is purely using library materials and Islamic textual sources. The parents and the society together must put proper attention during child‟s development to ensure that, the child gets the best training he/she deserves. Failure to do that will increase the number of bad people societies and tarnishes their development and growth