Abstract
The study was a descriptive survey. One hundred and fifty-six (156) respondents were sampled in Army Day Senior Secondary School, Sobi Barracks, Ilorin, Nigeria. Mean rating and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses postulated for this study. The study found out that children of single parents' homes faced problems like proneness to difficulties in coping with their academic performance and not well cared for in school by their parents as a result of lack of payment of their school fees and joining bad gang as a result of poverty is very easy. The study recommended that single parents should see themselves as having the same responsibilities towards their wards as the same with the children of the double parents, single parents should move closer to their children and monitor their education seriously so as to have good result at the end. Parents should avoid marital disunity. Parents should tolerate, accommodate, appreciate and understand each other in marriage. Wives of the military officers should learn how to work or doing petty business so when the husband dies then lives of children would not be in danger.