RESPONSIBLE

PARENTHOOD
ANNA LIZA F. RABO. RN,MAN
ACTIVITY: THUMBS UP OR THUMBS
DOWN
1. Mom and dad provide my basic needs.
2. Security is the priority of my parents.
3. Parents give love and care to their children.
4. We live under the bridge because our parents are jobless.
5. I get what I want from my parents.
PARENTHOOD

• Is the state of being a parent

• Means being a father or mother of the biological child
• Is a great responsibility or task.
• Is not a role which can be successfully played on the basis of chance
• Is a status where responsible couples arrive at after making a decision to have a
family.
FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN
THINKING OF PARENTHOOD
• Happiness and stability of the marriage.
• Physical and emotional readiness of both partners for parenthood.
• Financial stability.
WHAT DO YOU
MEAN BY
RESPONSIBLE
PARENTHOOD?
Responsible
Parenthood is the will
and ability to respond
to the needs and
aspirations of the
family.
Responsible
Parenthood is the
series of decisions of
couple to ensure the
best possible life for
the family and for the
community.
Responsible
parenthood is the
ability of the parents to
raise children in the
Filipino way and to
satisfy the social,
economic and religious
responsibilities of a
family..
RESPONSIBLE
PA R E N T H O O D

Includes the process of

deciding how to choose
our partners, when to
form families, when to
have the first child,
child spacing, how
many children to have
in all. Etc.
 • Also includes the inculcation
PARENTING of values and instilling of
discipline
 DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
OF PARENTS
Provide Provide physical care and love
Inculcat Inculcate discipline
e
Develop Develop social competence
DUTIES AND
Provide Provide education RESPONSIBILITIES

Train Train children to become good citizens

Teach Teach children to be financially responsible

Guide Guide children to grow spiritually.

ACTIVITY: EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES
REFLECT ON THE QUOTATION AND ANSWER THE QUESTION

Love is patient, Love is kind, it does not boast. It is not proud . It is not rude. It is
not self- seeking. It is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrong. Love
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, trust, hopes
and perseveres.

1. Corinthians 13:4-8
QUESTION

1. what message can you draw from 2. How can you put love into action
the quotation? every day within your family.
FAMILY SIZE

Big family –
Small family– parents and three
parents and most (3) or more
two (2) children children and other
members.
FAMILY SIZE
B IG FA M ILY
• Outgoing personality
• Love fun and laughter
• Can afford to raise children
S M A L L FA M ILY
• Quiet life
• Spend more quality time with your
family
• Provide better opportunities in
terms of education, health or
comfort in life for your children.
FAMILY STRUCTURES
EFFECTS OF FAMILY SIZE ON HEALTH

• Nutritional status
• Morbidity
• Risk behavior
• Utilization of health services
NUTRITIONAL
S TAT U S

The state of the body

with respect to each
nutrient and to the
overall state of the
body weight and
condition.
MORBIDITY

• Exit from a state of physical or

psychological well being resulting
from disease, illness ,injury or
sickness
RISK BEHAVIOR

• Specific forms of behavior which

are proven to be associated with
increased susceptibility to a
specific disease or ill-health
U T I L I Z AT I O N O F
H E A LT H S E R V I C E S

Experience of people
as to their receipt of
health care services of
different types.
FAMILY PLANNING
GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• Help couples /parents and individuals to achieve their desired number, timing and spacing of
children through responsible parenthood and to contribute in improving maternal, neonatal and
child health and nutrition.
DEFINITION AND
NATURE OF FAMILY
PLANNING
S PA C I N G A N D N U M B E R O F C H I L D R E N B O R N T O
THEM WITH THE AIM OF GIVING THEM
QUALITY LIFE. FP IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH
RESPONSIBLE COUPLES DETERMINE BY
T H E M S E LV E S T H E T I M I N G , P R O P E R
The family program has been
implemented for about 38 years which
started from a demographic perspective
to a health intervention program. FAMILY
PLANNING
In 1998 to present – the Philippines has
adopted and developed an RH policy
and framework with the goal of
providing universal access to RH
services with the family planning as a
flagship program.
RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD. Is the will and ability
to respond to the needs and aspirations of the family. It
promotes the freedom of responsible parents to decide on
the timing and size of their families in pursuit a better life.

RESPECT FOR LIFE. The 1987 Constitution protects

the life of the unborn from the moment of conception .FP
aims to prevent abortions thereby saving lives of both
FOUR (4)
women and children. PILLARS /GUIDING
PRINCIPLES OF
BIRTH SPACING. Proper spacing of 3-5 years from
recent pregnancy enables women to recover from PFPP
pregnancy and to improve their well being, the health of the
child and the relationship between husband and wife and
between parents and children.
• INFORMED CHOICE. Couples and
individuals are fully informed on the
different modern FP. Methods, Couples
and individuals decide and may choose
the methods that they will use based on
informed choice and to exercise
responsible parenthood in accordance
with their religious and ethical values
and cultural background, subject to
conformity with universally recognized
international human rights.
POPULATION POLICY AND PROGRAMS

• MAIN GOAL:
To enhance national development by meeting the social challenge of a high rate of
population growth. The department of Education and the United Nations Fund for Population
Activities create program for population education.
POPULATION EDUCATION: is the process of developing awareness and understanding of
population situation as well as rational attitude and behavior towards those situations for
attainment of high quality of life for the individual, the family, community and the nation and
world.
CONTRACEPTION
(BIRTH CONTROL
& TECHNIQUES
1. CHEMICAL METHOD

• Pill or oral contraceptive- the pill is a tablet made of hormones (estrogen and progesterone)
mimicking the ones your body produces monthly on its own.
• Morning –after Pill– is a form of emergency birth control
• Implants– implants are six matchstick-size rubber silicon rod, tubes or capsules containing
progestin.
CHEMICAL METHODS
2. STERILIZATION OR SURGICAL
METHOD
• In the sterilization , the eggs or sperm are prevented from going any where by cutting ,knotting
or blocking the tubes along which they normally travel.
• Tubal ligation: female sterilization involves tying, cutting or searing the two fallopian tube or
oviducts via surgery so that the passageway to the uterus is blocked.
3. MECHANICAL OR BARRIER
METHODS
• Male condom or prophylactic latex;
The condom is a synthetic latex sheath worn
over the penis during copulation .to prevent
the sperm from entering the woman's womb.
• Diaphragm /cervical cap; This device is a thin rubber cup or bowl- shaped rubber dish with
flexible rim that fits into the top of the vagina and covers the cervix the neck or entrance to
womb.
• Sponge : is a donut shaped device which is made of spongy materials that contain spermicide.
• Female condom: is elongated as polyurethane sheath about 6.5 inches long, with a flexible ring
at each end. It is used to line the inside of vagina and covers the cervix.
• The Douche- involves the washing out of sperm
and semen deposited inside the woman’s vagina
with the medicated solution immediately after
sexual intercourse
• Abstinence- is that ancient but worthy method and
the means of choice by the most conservative . It
is avoidance of any sexual activity that could
cause pregnancy
• Intra-uterine Devices (UID)- are made of small
flexible ,plastic of metal a few centimeters long
that is place d inside the uterus (womb).
NATURAL FAMILY
PLANNING
METHODS
• The rhythm ( calendar method)- also known as safe period. It is a fertility tracking method
using calendar
• Cervical mucus method: relying on woman’s familiarity with her body and its processes
SYMPTO- THERMAL METHOD

• This is a combination of the BBT and the cervical mucus methods and other physiological
indicators of ovulation ,such as tenderness of the breast and mid cycle pain.

• Withdrawal or coitus interruptus

during sex, the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina just before the sperm
containing fluid ejaculates.
PROLONGED LACTATION OR
LACTATIONAL AMENORRHEA (LAM)
• Breastfeeding is the main factor for delaying menstruation . As the baby sucks the nipple are
stimulated causing the woman's body to produce prolactin, the hormone that includes milk
flow.
• Breastfeeding also provides many other benefits. It is the best nutrition of infants. It lowers the
incidence of infant diseases and death because of presence of colostrum , a yellowish fluid in
the mothers milk known to be an antibody.
ACTIVITY … MY IDEAL COUPLE

• Make a collage of picture of couple whom you admire very much., ex.
Parents , uncle, aunt, and explain why you admire them.
W H AT Q U E S T I O N S W O U L D
YOU LIKE TO ASK ME?
SLIDE TITE
We are going to have a great year
learning together!
THANK YOU