Parents Role in Inculcating Proper Dress Sense Among Female Senior Secondary School Students in Abia State

Thestudy focused ontheRoles of Parents in Inculcating Proper Dress Sense among Female Senior Secondary School Student in Abia State. The study adopted survey research design.The population for the study was1,246 subjects comprising 623 female senior secondary school students and 623 parents.Samplesizeof302female students and 302 parents making a total sample size of 604wererandomly selected. A validatedstructuredquestionnaire title “Perception, Causes, Consequences and Roles of parents Questionnaire (PCCRQ)” wasusedfordatacollection. Thestatistical tool used for data analysiswerefrequency, means and standard deviation. The study identified 3 practices of dress sense among female senior secondary school students which includes dressing to reveal good part of the body like leg, chest, arm (3.26), dressing to attract the opposite sex or for male appraisal (2.88) and dressing to reflect family status (2.72). The study also identified six causes of indecent dressing among female senior secondary school students, which include imitating actresses in mass media (3.44), peer group influence (3.30), family orientation (2.87), and fashion in vogue (2.77). Identified by the study also are the consequences of indecent dressing. These include students being exposed to rape/ sexualharassments (3.32), tarnishing the image of the family and the religious group (3.22).Parents roles include teaching students the acceptable dress code in the society (3.65), ensuring that students start early in life to dress sensibly (3.38), parents/guardians monitoring the internet activities of students (3.32) and letting the students know the consequences of dressing indecently (2.91). In conclusion, students had wrong practices of dress sense.Basedonthefindingsofthestudy, the following recommendations were made: Joint efforts of parents, churches and school authorities should be made to ensure that properdresssense areinculcatedinthelivesofstudents.