Abstract:
Conflict had a great impact on parental child nurturing care practices and emotional
development of children in the world. The main objective of this study was to explore parental
child nurturing practices care and emotional and behavioral problems in confilect situasion in
Benishangul Gumuz Region; Metekel Zone, Mandura District. To achieve this objective the
researcher used mixed descriptive survey design combining qualitative and quantitative
methodologies in such a way that they complement one another. Qualitative data were analsized
using thematic approach, while quantitative data were analsized using descriptive statistics like
simple frequency, percentage, and logistic regression analysed using SPSS version 20. In order
to draw pertinemt respondent purposive sampling and for the survey simple random sample
technique were used to select 218 parents and took part in the study. A questionnaire was used to
get the quantitative data, while interview guide were used to gather the qualitative data. It was
found that conflict has a significant negative impact on parental childcare practices and
emotional development. The finding of this study indicate that the parental childcare practices in
terms of parental consistency, coercive parenting, positive encouragment, parent-child
relationship, parental adjustment, family relationship, and parental teamwork issues with which
145 (66.5%) of respondents had poor parental childcare practices in Mandura Woreda and
parental care practices in IDPs were poor than in area. Child emotional problem 148(67.9%),
conduct 129(59.5%), hyperactivityn 120(55%)peer problem 144(66.1%)) and total SDQ score
139 (63.8%) were reported by theuir parents. Both in crue (OR 6.4 (3.4, 11.9) P<0.001 and
adjusted (OR 3.8 (1.5, 7.4) P=0.002 modle, parent poor child nuturing care was found strongly
associated with child emotional and behavioral problem. Child nurturing care was also
associated with all domains of emotional and behavioural problem except with behaviour in an
adjusted model. From the qualitative component it was also evendt that conflict have an effect on
parental childcare and emotional development indicating, conflit has negative influence on child
emaotional and behavioural problem. Therefore, an intervention that works to enhance child
emotional development needs to consider conflict resolution and child nutruing care in such
situation.
