CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Family is said to be the first institution where one starts to equip oneself to grow. But

differences have been found to each family. Having healthy and happy family is what everyone’s

dream. But many could not succeed it. Due to different problems, the healthy families have been

broken up as well. When unwanted things are coming up, many families have been broken, and

the members are separated. This is a tragic happening out of unrestricted reasons as well as

unfortunate reasons.

When we say broken family, it is not distinct and strange thing, rather common and

experiencing problem in and around us. Family life is in a crisis when some problems aroused

and which causes separation of the members in the families, which is simply called broken

family.

However, a mere separation due to education, job, etc. is not broken family, even though

the family members are staying away from each other. To be broken in the family, there must be

some crises which are arisen out of misconception, mistreating, misunderstanding. Then the

occurring crises lead to the divorce of parents, disposal of sons or daughters and leaving home by

any members of that family. It is very controversial that whether to claim every splitting up is

broken family, while they still run the family well. There are many families without father,

mother, and other members but still conditionally and systematically running.

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 However, broken family is connected with a lot of causes and as part of it, it may result

many effects that may be good or bad. Moreover, it may affect sometimes physically but it is

more often emotionally and mentally. So, through the prevention, it may not stop but lessen the

bad effects that the victims of the broken family may felt. Is having a broken is for the better or

worse?

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Statement of the Problem

This study aimed to get effects of broken family in someone’s social life

Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:

1. Effects of Broken Family to Children

2. Causes of Broken Family

3. Prevention on having a Broken Family

Research Hypothesis

 The result of this research may clarify that the effect of broken family is not good

especially to the children who are encountering a broken family.

 The worst cause of having a broken family is the lack of communication that may

leads in misunderstandings.

 The best way to prevent having a broken family is showing the love and support

of each of the family,

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Significance of the Study

The researchers believed that the study would be beneficial to the following individuals

and group of individuals:

To the parents, this study will provide clear understanding of the effects of having a

broken family to their children. It will also help them to have some information to prevent

having a broken family.

To the students or children, this study may help them to control or manage their

emotions and feelings if they are one of those people who are having a broken family.

To the readers, for them to know that they should focus in the study than to think about

their problem at home. They can apply this research as a lesson that they treasure. They should

serve as they strength and more information to do whether it happens to her/him or not.

To the future researchers, for the future researcher can conduct a research that can

related their research, it helps to improve their ideas, it can take this as their guidelines and also,

they serve this as their tips to able improve their research.

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Scope and Limitation

The research entitled, “Better or Worse: Broken Family”. This research would determine

the causes, effects and prevention of having a broken family. It will focus on some people who

are facing a broken family here in STI Academic Center Lipa. This research is required to

conduct 50 randomly selected students who has an enough knowledge to answer the given

questionnaire. The study will be based by the answers of the participants of our research.

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Definition of Terms

Broken home is a family that has many problems. A problem which affects one or more

members of family mentally.

Children are young human being below the age of full physical development or below the legal

age of majority

Crisis is a difficult situation that needs serious attention

Emotion is a strong feeling about on something

Family is the basic unit of the society. Composed of father, mother and children.

Institution is a place where an organization takes cares of people for a usually long period of

time

Mental pertains to one’s mind

Misunderstanding is a failure to understand something

Physical pertains to one’s physical appearance

Victim a person who suffer or experiencing a broken family

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 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Conceptual Literature

This presents the information gathered from articles, journals, books and websites related

to the study.

Related Studies

The major early risk factors for antisocial behavior include impulsiveness, low

intelligence and low school achievement, poor parental supervision, child physical abuse,

punitive or erratic parental discipline, cold parental attitude, parental conflict, disrupted families,

antisocial parents, large family size, low family income, antisocial peers, high delinquency‐rate

schools, and high crime neighborhoods. The causal mechanisms linking these risk factors with

antisocial outcomes are less well established, and the ‘ICAP’ theory is proposed to explain these.

The major implications for intervention are that programs targeting these key risk factors should

be implemented, especially multiple‐component community‐based programs. [1]

Father absence and the personality development of the male child indicate that the effects

of father absence on the personality development of the male child cannot be considered in

isolation from other factors. The timing and length of father absence, sociocultural milieu,

relative availability of surrogate models, and individual differences in maternal behavior need to

be taken into consideration. The possible influence of father absence on different aspects of sex

role, the expression of impulsive and aggressive behavior, cognitive functioning, interpersonal

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relationships, and the development of psychopathology are explored. The need for further

systematic research is emphasized and many possible avenues of investigation are suggested. [2]

Despite a sizable body of research extending across various academic disciplines, the

question of the causal connection between broken homes and delinquency remains unresolved

and ambiguous. A major weakness of this literature is the absence of any systematic conceptual

specification of the broken home as a sociological variable. Although it appears intuitively

simple, the broken home concept includes a number of distinct and variable issues that cannot be

reduced to a simple dichotomy (broken/intact). Our intention here is analytic, aimed at

constructing a conceptual/theoretical foundation for subsequent empirical analyses. We identify

the variety of theoretical perspectives implicit in the research literature that have been used to

explain broken home effects, focusing on different functional effects of the family and

postulating different causal dynamics. We also consider the various ways that the broken home is

measured in extant research, the problems with such measurements, and special difficulties in the

measurement of delinquency in this substantive area. [3]

National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to

investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were

in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11

in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16,

respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers independently rated

the children's behavior problems, and the children were given reading and mathematics

achievement tests. At both time points in the U.S. data, parents rated the children's behavior

problems. Children whose parents divorced or separated between the two time points were

compared to children whose families remained intact. For boys, the apparent effect of separation

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or divorce on behavior problems and achievement at the later time point was sharply reduced by

considering behavior problems, achievement levels, and family difficulties that were present at

the earlier time point, before any of the families had broken up. For girls, the reduction in the

apparent effect of divorce occurred to a lesser but still noticeable extent once preexisting

conditions were considered. [4]

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 CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, we discuss the research design, sampling of participants, instrumentation,

gathering data procedure and data analysis technique.

Research Design

The method that we were going to use was descriptive method. We use this method

through the observation that came up to our survey about the causes, effects and prevention of

broken family. It is through by analyzing and collecting data from the people who gave their own

knowledge from the given topic.

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Questionnaires:

1) What are the reasons behind having a broken family?

2) Does having a broken family gives negative effect on your social life? How?

3) What is the disadvantages of having a broken family?

4) Do you think having a lock of communication is one of the reasons of having a broken

family?

5) What is your reason to prevent having a broken family?

6) In preventing a broken family, do you think choosing a right partner is necessary?

7) Is having a lack of commitment is also a cause of broken family?

8) Did you ever experienced depression as you encountered having a broken family?

9) How do you feel complete in a world full of hate, separation and sadness?

10) Do you think arrange marriage is one of the causes of having a broken family?

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