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2019
DEDICATION
This work is dedicated to all students who wants to do all the best part of them
To make better as a students and also I would like to thanks my sister in
Law that teach me how to manage the write correct grammar.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With the heartfelt appreciation I wish to acknowledge the following people whose
input has contributed immensely into the work.
Premarital sex is any sexual activities with an opposite sex partners or a same sex
before he/she has started a marriage life. The term is usually used to refer the inter course
before the legal age of marriage. In the course of experimentation, adolescents often in
counter high risk situation, as contracting exposed to intended pregnancy and illicit
abortions.
Premarital sex is including information about family planning, reproduction, body
image, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, communication,
dating, relationships, sexually transmitted infections and how to avoid them, and birth
control methods’ and adolescent pregnancy is responsible to this problem, this study
seeks to investigate on the influence of sex on adolescent involved in premarital sex and
adolescent pregnancy in Arusha City, Tanzania.
The Department of Education (DepEd) here has expressed alarm over the rising cases
of pregnancy among students in the last three years. Mario Bermudez, assistant
superintendent of DepEd city division said they already recorded a total of 83 cases of
teenage pregnancies in local school as of year and 2018.
Mario Bermudez said the number increased by 17 from 66 in 2016 and with a Grade 6
learner as the youngest documented case and he said they have intensified their sexuality
campaign in all public and private school from Elementary to Senior High School levels.
Bermudez said these classes focus on teaching students the proper way of caring for
themselves and the disadvantages of early engagement in sexual activities and the
resulting teenage pregnancy. He said also provide counselling sessions through trained to
Guidance counsellors and teachers. Bermudez said they partnered with the City
Government, through the City population office, for the training of their teachers in
Senior High School and guidance counselors on sexuality education. (Brigada FM/Media
New).
Research Questions:
This study aims to determine the students’ awareness on premarital sex. Especially
it seeks to answer the following questions:
The results of this study will benefit the following beneficiaries. The acceptance of
the consequences are:
Principal to understand what the value of awareness premarital sex about and to
learn what are the most important lessons of awareness and also to help young people to
understand what are sex.
Teachers through this study the teachers will be able to become conscious on what
approach to be administered to the students so that they would have a better realization
on the issue of premarital sex.
Parents through this study they will be guided on what to do to help their children
understand issues about premarital sex. They will become aware also on who in the family
had the most influence most on their children.
Students this will help them identify what are the matters related to premarital sex
to avoidance of doing those that will introduce harm to their plans will provide them
better and brighter future.
Future Researchers this research paper may enlighten them to conduct further
study on topics related to this piece.
This study will determine the students’ awareness on the premarital sex on the
Senior High students of Cotabato City National High School Rojas during S. Y 2019-2020
Definition of terms
Students: The Senior High School that enrolled in Cotabato City National High School
Rojas are engaging of having premarital sex at 11 above.
Premarital sex: Is the sexual activity practiced by people before they are married.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND THEORETICAL LENS
PREMARITAL
Premarital sex can refer to more than one sex occasion of sexual activity or more than
one sex partner. Social attitudes to premarital sex have changed over time as has the
prevalence of premarital sex in various societies.
EARLY PREGNANCY
Those young females have not yet reached adulthood and the causes of early
pregnancy vary greatly. An early pregnancy may be linked to things such as lack of
education and information about reproduction to peer pressure and early engagement of
sexual activity. Those young females often do not complete their education and they begin
a perpetual cycle in which their child may further go on to become a teenage parents as
well. (UNICEF. Org, April 8 2016).
In the Philippines, the National Youth Commission (NYC) as cited by Sun Star
Cagayan de Oro (2012) said. That the rate of teenage pregnancy in the Philippines has
reached alarming proportions, having increased 70% over the past years, from 14,205 in
1999 to 195,662 in 2009. Furthermore, the annual report of the United Nations
Population funds in 2011 at 53 births per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 19, the
teenage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is the highest among Asian’s six major
economies…” Furthermore, the National Statistics Office, as cited by de la Cruz in 2009,
presented figures in which 26.7% of women who give birth to their first child in 2010 are
15 to 19 years old(Philippine News Agency, 2012).
In the Philippines year in 2017 with the 3,147 percent surge 2007, according to an Al
Jazeera analysis of the latest data published by the country’s health agency, bucking a
downward trend worldwide.(Al Jazeera.com/news/2018).
Manila Philippines with more than one million individuals’ construction sexual
transmitted infection (STI) every day, the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION(WHO)
has reported that the diseases remains a persistent and endemic health threat across the
globe.(https:www.philstar.com).
This case make virus weakens a person’s ability to fight infection and cancer. People
with have Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). When the virus makes them
very sick and they develop certain infection or cancer (published by WebMD, Sept 12
2018).
2.1.2 IMPORTANCE OF STUDENTS AWARENESS
Among the youth has been the central focus of a number of previous studies source of
the information were analyzed in the different societies. School, media, peers discussion
with the parents etc., are the most sexual sex education can reach teenagers through many
different ways, one of which is through schools. The government can make it compulsory
for school students to undergo at least a certain number of hours of premarital sex.
In the secondary level can be introduced in Physical Education & Health Classes,
Home Economics, Biology, Social Studies, English and Literature, and Family Relations
or Human Relations classes.
This chapter presents the method in this qualitative research. This includes the
research design, role of the researcher, research participants, and the data collection. This
chapter will also explore the issue on trustworthiness which included credibility,
confirmability, transferability, dependability, ethical consideration.
Research Design
This research will employ an Focus group discussion qualitative method utilizing
structured interview. This method will be used at describing the data in words or making
interpretation on the results.
Research Materials
The materials of the study will be questionnaires of the 1 participants of the focus
group discussion of the selected students and there are:
Trustworthiness
Gay, Mills and Airasian (2006) revealed that researchers can establish the
trustworthiness of their research studies and finding addressing all Lincoln and Guba‘s
(1985) criteria for validity, namely, credibility, transferability, dependability and
confirmability. Gay, Mills and Airasian (2006) defined credibility as the ability of the
researcher to take into account all of the complexities that present themselves in a study
and to deal with patterns that are not easily explained.
Ethical Consideration
The researcher will follow the specific research guidelines mandated by Cotabato
City National High school Rojas site.
TABLES OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS PAGES
Tittle page i
Dedication ii
Acknowledgement iii
Table of contents ix
List of tables x
CHAPTER I
Research questions 2
Definition of terms 3
CHAPTER II
Premarital sex 4
Early pregnancy 4- 5
CHAPTER III
Methodology 7
Research design 7
Research Materials 7
Data Collection 8
Trustworthiness 8
Ethical Consideration 8
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