Tsega, Sewalem (PhD)Getachew, Yetemwork2019-03-192023-11-052019-03-192023-11-052018-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/16909The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges of students who come from single parents in attaining secondary school education at Yekatite 66 secondary school in Arada sub city of Addis Ababa. In order to obtain relevant information in depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with single parented students and their teachers with the combination of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as well as document review. For this purpose, the data were collected from ten students from single parents and five teachers have participated in the study to obtain the necessary data.The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis or major idea analysis. The findings from the study revealed that challenges that single parented students face in attaining secondary education are multidimensional and complex. They are complex because one causes the other or no single challenge that stand on its own. Those challenges are economic hard ship, poor parental care, low parental involvement and emotional challenges (loneliness, hesitation for their parents love and helpless). In consequence, those challenges have negative effects on single parented students’ class attendance, concentration, academic performance, behavior and forced them to drop out of the school. The study also suggests that the school encourage educating youths to be economically self supportive and good family members. The school guidance and counseling officers should work co-operately to the school administration in order to identify and to support students from single parent homes to overcome their emotional problems. This will help them to concentrate and work hard at school as the same time it will improve their academic as well as their future life.enChallenges of Students Who Come From Single ParentsThesis