Mr Alexander Boakye-Yiadom, Director of the King of Glory Early Childhood Development Centre in Koforidua, has said research he had conducted over the past 10 years showed that children from
broken homes were worse offenders of breaking school rules.
"Such children seriously become promiscuous in school and even out of school, they are the first to leave the boarding house after vacation but last to report on re-opening".
Mr Boakye-Yiadom was speaking on the topic-"Responsible Parenting" at the 18th anniversary and graduation ceremony of the school at the weekend.
He said eight out of 10 candidates who failed in the Basic Education Certificate Examination and the West African Senior School Examination were either neglected or children form broken homes.
"It is also very sad to note that greater numbers of students who break school rules and vandalize school properties are either neglected
children or children from broken homes".
Mr Boakye-Yiadom said school drop outs, teenage pregnancies, drug addicts, armed robbery and child streetism were as a result of somebody's
parental negligence.
Mrs Georgina Obeng, proprietors of the school, said effective child care and development needed the efforts of all to rise up beyond "what we have been doing because we can always do better".
Mr Nicholas Aprew Siaw, former Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Koforidua Polytechnic who was the guest speaker, expressed
worry about the refusal of some parents to enrol their children in pre-school.
He called on all to rise up against child neglect and abuse that is on the ascendancy.