Effects of broken family to filipino children

Impact of Broken Homes on Behaviour Among High School Students: Basis for a Family System Counselling Module

Francis Artchess B. Babao

Abstract:

Students from broken homes felt the burden of their parents as they go to school or as they mingle with their peers (Kiura , 1999). To intervene the negative impact of broken homes, children should be made aware that it would be helpful to work with a group of people with similar experiences and/or with a professional counselor. Hence, this descriptive research delved into the impact of broken homes on the students’ behavior to produce a Module on Family System Counseling for community outreach activity. Purposive sampling was adopted in selecting the respondents. Simple percentage, frequency and weighted mean were utilized to analyze the collected data. Impact of broken home on the personal behaviours were studied particularly on relationship with parents, inter-personal skill in relating with other people, tendency to depart from home, lose of personal religious faith, hang-up with peer groups , engage with boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, indulge with pre-marital sex, get involved with vices, do criminal acts, and suicidal attempts. The findings revealed that broken home had a negative impact on the respondents’ behavior such as their tendency to incur failing grades, manifest attendance problems such as absences and tardiness. This paper concludes that broken homes had cause a negative impact on the behavior of the respondents. Thus, it is important that teachers, guidance counselors, custodial parents and guardians of children of broken homes should collaborate to avert the negative impact. The school must enhance their guidance program and services by giving attention to students-at-risk, conduct interventionactivities to remedy or prevent the serious impact of broken home. Through community extension service, the Guidance Counselor may render family counseling therapy to concerned

Broken Family Relationship: Its Impact on Students’ Attitude Towards Academic Endeavors

Jerah Cebuano | Mara Bungay | Kissha Pearl Ortalla | Ella Lotivio | Elvie Dejito | Liezl Perpetua | Jerald Araneta | Rodelyn Magdadaro | Gemabel Sotto | Lovely Luz Ano-os | Diamaeca Olimba | Romafe Ursal | Charlene Villaganas

Discipline: Education

Abstract:

This study is intended to determine the lived experiences of students in a broken family and its effects on their academic endeavors. This study utilized the descriptive design. Calderon (2006), defined descriptive research as a purposive process of gathering, analyzing, classifying, and tabulating data about prevailing conditions, practices, processes, trends, and cause-effect relationships and then making an adequate and accurate interpretation of such data with or without or sometimes minimal aid of statistical methods. The following major findings are: broken family relationship does affect student’s academic performance. The family situations corrupt their focus in studying and family problems bothered them while in school. Having a broken family also makes the students feel the deprived belongingness and different compared to other students who have complete and happy. The responsibilities thrown in to them give so much pressure which causes anxiety and depression. It can be concluded that broken family relationships greatly affect students’ attitude towards academic endeavors, most of the respondents from a broken family faced a great challenge, they experienced depression, emotional problems, and insecurity with students who have complete and happy families. Being in a broken family affects their academic endeavors. They are prone to anxiety, depression, and emotional breakdown that affects their academic performance. They cannot focus and sometimes lose interest in studying to the point that their academic performance is affected.

1 in 3 Filipino youth grew up without both parents

Childhood and adolescence are critical stages of development that require close parental support and guidance. A third of today’s Filipino youth, however, have had to navigate the challenges of growing up without the presence of both biological parents.

Results of the 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study (YAFS5) show that only 67% of young people were raised by both parents*; 65% among ages 15-19, and 68% among ages 20-24. This presents a distinctive decline from the percentages recorded from 1994 to 2013 (see Figure 1). Some 18% of all youth lived with their mothers only, while 4% lived with their fathers only. Meanwhile, 7% of the youth were raised by other people, mostly their grandparents.

While all regions experienced a decline in the percentage of youth raised by both parents, it is notably lowest in the country’s richest regions, namely Central Luzon (38%), NCR (58%), and CALABARZON (61%) (see Table 1).

The most common reasons for not being raised by both parents include any parent working away (45%), marital separation (38%), and the death of any parent (17%) (see Figure 2). Between 2013 and 2021, the large increase in the share of youth not raised by both parents can be attributed to the increase in the share of those whose parents were working away within the country for much of their childhood.

Since 1994, the YAFS series has been collecting information on the persons who mostly raised the youth before they reached 18, given how parental support and family configuration during formative years and adolescence explain much of the youth’s values, attitudes, and behaviors.

For instance, regional studies that used the 2013 YAFS data found that not having been raised by both father and mother is linked to a higher likelihood of early school leaving, teenage pregnancy, and cohabitation. It was also found to be associated with lower self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness