Parenthood

Children

• Blessings that bring joy and pride to parents

• They may fulfill a marriage, perfect the personality of parents, enrich
marital love, or confer status on the family
• Maybe viewed as a continuation of the family line, or a means of
ensuring that family members and ancestors are honored
Children

•In rural Philippines, it is viewed as

investment potential, securing their
parents against economic, physical and
psychological hardships in old age
•Can also be considered as liabilities
Responsible Parenthood

•Privilege and obligation exercised by

married couples to deliberately and
generously decide to raise a large family
or for different reasons and motives and
with due respect for the moral law, to
avoid a new birth for an indeterminate
period
Planned Parenthood

•Not about avoiding fertility, but rather about

maintaining fertility until the person can
choose the right time for assuming the
responsibility of being a parent
•Spacing or limiting the number of births may
promote a woman’s health and well-being, as
well as improve future pregnancy outcomes
Planned Parenthood

•Common justification for planned

parenthood include:
- danger to the mother’s or child’s
health and life
- eugenic hereditary defects
- socio-economic difficulties
Article 220-221 of the family code of
the Philippines
Parental Authority

•1. To keep them in their company, to

support, educate and instruct them by
right precept and good example, and to
provide for their upbringing in keeping
their means
•2. To give them love and affection,
advice and counsel, companionship and
understanding
Parental Authority

•3. To provide them with moral and spiritual

guidance, inculcate in them honesty,
integrity, self-discipline, self-reliance,
industry and thrift, stimulate their interest in
civic affairs, and inspire in them compliance
with the duties of citizenship
•4. to enhance, protect, preserve and
maintain their physical and mental health at
all times
Parental Authority

•5. To furnish them with good and

wholesome educational materials,
supervise their activities, recreation and
association with others, protect them
from bad company, and prevent them
from acquiring habits detrimental to
their health, studies and morals
Parental Authority

•6. To represent them all in all matters

affecting their interests
•7. to demand from them respect and
obedience
•8. To impose discipline on them as may
be required under the circumstances
Parental Authority

•9. To perform such other duties as

are imposed by law upon parents
and guardians
Role play

•Compare families with two children

and those with six. What are the
advantages and disadvantages of
each family?