ABSTRACT

The study examine the assessment of roles of a working mother in child health in Ikeja local government area of Lagos State. A total 100 questionnaire were administered among working mothers of 10 banks in Ikeja local  government area Lagos state.

The variable examined include: academic performance, moral development, social development of the child. Data analysis was simple percentage distributions, while the hypotheses were tested with chi-square statistical were used to test the hypotheses. All the three hypotheses was accepted that is a significant relationship moral development, academic development and social development of the working mothers and those of the non- working mothers.

It was concluded that working mothers should do their home work very well by employing good helper who will be assisting them at home to train their children ,morally, academically and socially before their arrival from office  and makes sure that they look at every alternative available to gives their  child or wards good moral, academic and social support to better their upbringing.

Mothers should take a work that are less demanding, they should find schools for their children in their environment to reduce mothers dis-attachment from their children and government should implement a policy that would recognize women of child bearing age and put them on a pay role, if it can work in developed countries, it can also work in Nigeria to reduce their stress by giving them pay leave doing rearing and nurturing of babies and children combining.