Abstract

child s wholeness is argued to be essential to the child becoming a productive citizen However when measured by the spiritual academic moral and emotional wholeness appear to have maintained a steady decline Therefore the paper investigated the role of parental presence and parenting practices on child s wholeness The cross-sectional survey research design was adopted through a validated structured questionnaire A purposive random sampling technique was applied to select 87 married people at Babcock University Ogun State Nigeria The data gathered were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics Multiple regression results revealed that parental presence and parenting practices had a positive significant effect on child s wholeness Adj R2 0 396 F 2 84 27 549 p 0 05 and the artificial neural network analysis showed parenting practices as the best predictor