Abstract

The study investigated the effects of maternal employment on child-upbringing practices in Abeokuta South and North Local Government Areas of Ogun state. Description research designs of survey method was adopted. A simple random sampling technique was employed and 500 subjects drawn from a population of 449,088. Three research objectives were raised and two hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings were: that there was significant relationship between the traditional and modern child-upbringing practices tested with the paired t-test, while maternal employment affected child-upbringing practices. It was recommended among others was that employed mothers should integrate and use the positive traditional and modern child-upbringing practices for a better development of the children.