Family Background and Poor Academic Performance of a Child

The family is the primary socializing agent of which a child is a member since it is in the family the child is born. One may rightly say that the family is the informal socializing agent since all its members are blood relations. At this junction, it must be clearly known that families differ vastly in terms of their significance in social order as some have more prestige, dignity, money and power than others. However, despite these differences in families, a child in the family remains exactly alike for the following reasons:
1. The people surrounding the child here are generally adults full of experience.
2. The child lives his early life in the family and equally develops his first language.
3. Since they are of the same blood, they all work together to mould him in a way that he will perfectly fit into the society.

4. For the same reasons given above they will not intentionally misdirect him.
5. There is free interaction among the family members which promotes better understanding.
6. There is imposition of the social norm on the child through punishment and praises.
7. A child in the family is having his primary exposure to the world and hence he is totally guided by the adults in his family most especially the parents.
8. Finally, a child in the family is immune to all the social ills in the society under normal condition or in an ideal situation.