CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
          Motherless babies home refers to a place or a home whereby infant baby who has no female parent. While Orphan is one who loss both parents prematurely either through natural death or disaster.
          Motherless is a situation whereby a baby or person lacks a female parent. Also motherless Babies home could define as an Institution where infant baby is kept whose mother is dead, abandoned or missing is received and look after them by a charitable organisation or individual, within any physical incident that took place in a while or in a specific period of time like war earthguare accidents etc render a number of children motherless, fatherless.
          In most Africa’s for a example, a motherless baby is regarded as a servant or slave to others and they are treated merely without regard. Those whose parents is alive, since they don’t have any one back or rescue them out of their challenges.
          In some other societies like America the motherless babies home and orphanages.
          The main objective in this project has to do with the statistical analysis on the number of babies admitted in the motherless baby home in Enugu. That is why it is necessary to check critically into the extent to which the number of babies absorbs in the motherless baby homes within the Holy child motherless babies home Enugu.
1.2     AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To find out whether the length of time it female babies to bread up is less than male child
To compare the proportion of female in the home to that of male.
To make recommendation on the abandonment of babies based on my findings.
To findout the number of reported case of on sex.
To verity some of the possible cases of child abandonment.
1.3     SCOPE AND COVERAGE
          This project covers the admission of inmates motherless babies home Enugu for a period of fen year (1995 – 2004).