CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

The Family is a profoundly important to child’s development. A child will learn about

manners, self-esteem, relationships, worth and loyalty all by watching and participating in a

family. Parents teach about values first by living those values. Children learn much more from

what you say. Families play an enormously important role in kid’s social and emotional

development. Nurturing family relationships lay the foundation for all other relationship.

Through these experience, children learn to trust others and seek out friendship and comfort.

Having healthy and happy family is what everyone’s dream. In the most basic sense, the family

is essential because it sustains society while fulfilling God’s purposes (Thompson, 2017).

Changes in family structure as a result of family transitions have a negative impact on

children's well-being. The term "child well-being" can be defined in a variety of ways. There is

widespread agreement that childhood well-being is multifaceted and should include physical,

educational, emotional, and social elements. Happiness is assumed to be influenced by family

income and educational chances since these factors reduce the chance of inequities between

individuals and improve quality of life. (Conti & Heckman, 2012).

Children with broken family in United States, each year over 1 million American children

suffer the divorce of their parents. Children from non-intact families have significantly higher

rates of difficulty with all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten through to primary,

secondary, and college levels. Teenagers, students from broken homes were 30 percent more

likely to miss school, be late, or cutting class than students from intact homes, in part because
single parent had more difficulty monitoring their children. These children were also at higher

risk for smoking, using drugs, and consuming alcohol (Schultz, 2006).

Children with broken families in the Philippines, most of the student come from a broken

family with a single parent. Slowed academic development is another common way that

separation of the parents affects children. After a divorce, children from pre-school through late

adolescence can experience deficits in emotional development. Children of all ages may seem

tearful or depressed. Children may experience anxiety, which can make difficult for them to seek

positive social interactions and engage in developmentally beneficial activities such as teen

sports. This analysis becomes necessary because life in a single parent family can be stressful for

both the child and the parent. Such families are faced with the challenges of diminished financial

resources (Lopez, 2006).

Thus, as the researchers we indulged ourselves into a research study to investigate the life

stories of school-age children with broken family. The result of this study will also be a great

help for the institution and others to make a beneficial action for the respondents.

Purpose of Study

The study’s major goal is to determine the cause and effect of a broken family on school-

aged children. This will also seek the struggles and coping mechanism of the children attitudes in

school.
Research Questions

The study’s major goal is to investigate the school-age children with a broken family as

perceived by the respondents.

Specifically, it sought to answer the following question:

1. What are the struggles of the school-age children with broken family?

2. How does the situation affect a school-age children with broken family on their

educational engagement?

3. What are the coping mechanism of the school-age children with a broken family?

Significance of the Study

This study was conducted to find out the effects of broken family to the school-age

children. This will be beneficial to the following:

School Administration. The study will aid the school administration since it will demonstrate

how difficult it is to have a shattered household. This research could also be used by schools to

help them figure out how to treat and understand youngsters who are the result of a broken

family.

Teachers. In teachers when they meet across such a student who is through a family breakdown,

it can be helpful to them. In that situation, the schoolteacher might address and talk to the child,

relieving the child's hidden pain. If a child's family is broken, the teachers may learn to

comprehend the child's feelings.

Parent. The parents were addressed as the most crucial people in this research because the

parents are the ones that guide their children in such a family. The most important factor in a
child's growth is parental guidance. We discovered that the primary cause of family breakdown

is parent separation, divorce, and other similar events. We help parents understand how their

family structure affects their children's development, behavior, and attitudes. It encompasses a

child's academic achievements as well as his or her social behavior.

Students. The students will learn from this research since they are the ones who will be affected,

and it will enable them to be mindful if they find themselves in a similar scenario. It can also

help children who have never experienced a broken family to understand how to respond and be

aware of their behavior.

Future Researchers. This study will be helpful to future researcher’s time pass by there might

be a researcher will choose this topic. The data of all respondents was collected over a period of

one to three weeks. A total of eight people were reached, but only five accepted to participate.

The respondents' ages ranged from 15 to 18 years old, and they were all in good health particular

experience and understanding, the chosen respondents can provide insight into the nature of

problems and make ideas for solutions.

Theoretical Lens

This Study was anchored with the psychosocial theory of Erik Johnson which discussed

theories about the effects of broken family to the school-age children. According to Erik Johnson

(1956) children aged between 6-18 years have tasks facing and meeting the family, peer and

school expectations. Feelings of inadequacy, poor self-image, fear of school, lack of attention,

bad memory, excessive competition, expressing anger, and sexual disadvantages are all problems

at this stage. In this study, students in homes with conflict had a lack of trust in their parents

since those parents were not meeting the basic demands of those families' problems. Parental
separation has been linked to a wide range of negative consequences on children's well-being in

the literature, both as a short-term consequence of transition and as more long-term impacts that

last into adulthood (Mickey, 2004).

When adolescence from unstable homes are compared to adolescence in stable homes, it

is clear that the former has more social, academic, and emotional issues. (Schults, 2006). Positive

and negative (poor) academic performance are the two types of academic performance.

Academic achievement in school is influenced by habits, family background, perseverance,

attitudes, and interest. (Akinboye, 2004).

 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

A broken family can have a negative impact on a child's development in many areas.

According to Noligen Baguio, family stability serves as a foundation for children's development

throughout their lives. When parents’ divorce, their children are left with little security, which

causes them to forget essential childhood notions that may follow them throughout their lives.

Divorced or separated parents' children have a lower rate of success and satisfaction. Seeing

parents go from a typical family lifestyle to a "broken" family as a result of their separation is

extremely damaging to a child's mental health. Children are anxious and worried, according to

reviews of the research, and they feel safe and common in their families. Family breakup, on the

other hand, has not yet turned into a positive; it is still a negative. Emotional and financial

upheaval of children's lives is one of the severe consequences. In light of the aforementioned

concerns.

Similarly, the study intends to reflect or demonstrate that parental separation can

induce anxiety, despair, and attitude, as well as alter the social conduct of children who have

experienced broken family. Conversely, the difference between parents who can take care of

their children and the parent who abandon their children.

Broken Family, according to Woosley (2009), is not an unintended event in a family's life.

It is something that can affect each family member in their own unique way and at different

periods. Today, the likelihood of a family breaking up is really high. Because this is an

unintended occurrence, numerous things must be considered when children are involved.

Children from broken homes have more difficult social, intellectual, and behavioral transitions
than children from intact families, according to research. Children from non-intact homes also

have lower psychological well-being than children from intact homes.

According to the article (2011), a family might consist of a father, mother, and children

who all reside in the same residence until they reach the age of independence. A broken family is

a family with children whose parents are legally or illegally separated, whose parents have

chosen to live with a kid or children, and who no longer share a single family home as a unit.

Similarly, this study found that a broken family is the most common cause of a child's deception

in life.

According to the article, the impacts of a broken family on children in the majority of

these cases, one parent gets custody of his or her children. Despite this, the idea that they are no

longer complete seem to be unacceptable. Here are a few ways that a broken bone might make a

child feel insecure. He was insecure since he no longer had a complete family to call his own.
 CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

This chapter tackles the methods used in order to come up with this kind of study. This

study provides for the essential and relevant data needed for any academic institution both

private and public. It will tackles on how the researches will gather data and information that will

be a great help to this study. The lived experienced of broken family.

Research Design

The researcher use qualitative research method in this study about the impact of a broken family

to school-age children. They will collect qualitative data through interviews.

Qualitative research design is primarily exploratory research. It is used to gain an understanding

of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations. It provides insights into the problem or helps

to develop ideas or hypotheses for potential quantitative research. It is also used to uncover

trends in thought and opinions, and dive deeper into the problem. (DeFranzo, 2011).

Research Instruments

The instrument used was a researcher-created questionnaire check list to collect the items needed

to evaluate the causes and effects of broken families on school-aged children. Considered in the

design of a good data collection instrument. For example, statements explaining the

circumstances or difficulties were toned down to match the respondent's knowledge readiness.
Data Collection

Gathering qualitative information through structured conversation during interviews with

senior high school students who might serve as our most important informants. With their

specific experience and understanding, the chosen respondents can provide insight into the

nature of the problems and make recommendations for solutions. (Brook, 1996) As a result of

the Key Informant Interviews, we were able to establish a strong bond with them and learn more

about their difficulties, wants, and aspirations as a result of the case study.

Data Analysis

Analyzing data from Key Informant Interviews can be challenging. It is sometimes

difficult to judge the validity of the information gathered from this study was subjected to

phenomenological qualitative method which focuses to reveal meaning of the lived experience

from the perspective of participants (Young, 1991). Individual experience is the center of

phenomenological study, a research methodology with philosophical foundations. Because it is

based on philosophy and analyzes conscious knowledge of the world from the subjective or first

person point of view, this approach is the most effective for this research. (Smith, Flower and

Larkin, 2013).

Population and Sampling

 The population of this study are the 8th to 12th graders who are in a broken family whose

age is about 14 to 18 years old from different schools in Digos City. Participants were chosen for

the qualitative data collection based on their gender and age, and then asked if they would be

willing to be interviewed directly. They are made up of 8th to 12th grade students that are part of

a broken family and are willing to share their experiences and issues.

Participants of the Study

The participants of the study are the 8th to 12th graders who are in a broken family whose

aged 14 to 18 years old from different schools in Digos City.

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