Impact of Urbanization on the Family Structure in Nigeria

The world has been experiencing rapid growth of cities in the2T‘ century and urban population has more than tripled, from just over 750 million to about 8 billion. This paper discusses the impact of urbanization on the family structure in Nigeria. The paper makes use of secondary data to explore the impact of urbanization on the family structure in Nigeria. The paper concludes that urbanization has largely impacted negatively on the family structure. Therefore, the paper recommends among other things that policy makers should give more attention to the plight of urban and rural dwellers especially as regards to gross inadequacy of basic infrastructures as this will have significant control on ruralurban migration triggered by the gross inadequacy of these basic infrastructures in the rural area and government must make efforts to disperse population through it housing schemes by encouraging private partnership in the provision of descent housing where needed.