Name: Nathale A.

Lozano Subject: English for Academic and Professional

Grade & Section: Gr. 11 – HUMSS-A Purposes (EAPP) QUARTER 2 –
WEEK 8
Code: F-27

APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

ACTIVITY 2. FIGURE IT OUT!

(From Week 5 Questionnaire)

HUMSS A: Lozano Family’s Opinion About Marriage

Dear Respondent,

We’d really like to find out how you feel about marriage. We’re looking for people who have opinion
and openness on this kind of topic. We realize how precious your time is, that’s why we made sure this
survey will only take a quick amount of time. Thank you for helping us out for every second you invested
in our survey.

- Nathale A. Lozano

Section A.

For this section, tick in the appropriate box. ☑

Personal Data:

1. Gender
☐ Male ☐ Other
☐ Female ☐ Prefer not to say

2. Age
☐ 20-30 yrs. old ☐ 41-50 yrs. old
☐ 31-40 yrs. old ☐ 50 yrs. old

3. Marital Status
☐ Single ☐ Separated ☐ Other
☐ Married ☐ Widowed

4. Religious Affiliation
☐ Catholic ☐ Pentecostal ☐ Other
 ☐ Protestant ☐ Muslim

Questionnaire Guide:

For each of the following items, please tick in the box that best represents your suitable opinion as it is
in each statement. ☑

1. In your opinion, has your parents’ relationship affected your view of marriage?
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Not sure

2. Should romantic love be a pre-requisite of marriage? (as opposed to friendship or family love).
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Not sure

3. Is an age difference between husband and wife acceptable?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ It depends

4. Do you think married partners should be equal in decision-making power?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Not in all cases

5. Do you think married partners should be equal in decision-making power?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Not in all cases

6.  Can children be raised successfully in a household with a single parent?

☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Not sure

a.) With unmarried parents?

☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Not sure

b.) With same-sex parents?

☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Not sure
Section C.

Do you agree that divorce should be legalize in our country?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☐ Not sure

If your answer is yes/no/not sure in any circumstances, please explain why.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Result using an appropriate visual:

Percentage of answers for the questionnaire

6

5
5 5 4.8
4 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.3
4
3.5 3.6
3
3 3 3
2.8
2 2.4 2.5
2 2 2 2
1.8
1

0
no. 1 no. 2 no. 3 no. 4 no. 5 no. 6 Section C

Yes No Not sure/It depends

Marriage is positively associated with a large number of outcomes including improved cognitive,

emotional and physical well-being for children, better mental and physical health for adults, and greater
earnings and consumption for family members. In some cases, divorce is the best course of action.
Research makes clear that some relationships are unsafe or unhealthy.

Name: Nathale A. Lozano Subject: English for Academic and Professional

Grade & Section: Gr. 11 – HUMSS-A Purposes (EAPP) QUARTER 2 –
WEEK 9
Code: F-27

ACTIVITY 1. IMREADY!

An Undergraduate Research
Presented to
the Faculty of the
Janiuay National Comprehensive High School
Janiuay, Iloilo

First Semester 2020 – 2021

English for Academic and Professional Purposes (2nd QUARTER - WEEK 9)

Activity 1: IMREADY: Research Report

“THE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND CONFLICT ON

PEOPLES’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE”

by
Nathale Lozano
 I.

Abstract
This paper is a case study of lasting marriages
in the Philippines. It examines couples who are
together
or are still married for 25 years or more. This
study evaluates three couples using Judith
Wallerstein’s
and Sandra Blakeslee’s Nine Developmental
Tasks of Marriage. It will examine its
effectiveness up to
date while being open for recent tasks not
mentioned. With the interdisciplinary
component of
theological studies coupled with guidance and
counselling concerning the family, the study
will also
connect the analysis of these marriages in the
idea of Marrying, Loving, and Dreaming, the
third one
being an important element in marriage as Pope
Francis said in his meeting with families in the
Philippines last January 2015. The analysis will
try to weave the effectiveness of the Nine Tasks
with
some ideas of the new exhortation ‘Amoris
Laetitia’ of the Holy Father but still following
the trajectory of
marrying, loving, and dreaming. This paper
juxtaposes a secular study on marriages with a
Catholic
point of view when the element of being Christ-
centered enters the scene. The theological
assertion is
that marriage, love, and dreaming would be
nothing without God
Abstract
This paper is a case study of lasting marriages
in the Philippines. It examines couples who are
together
or are still married for 25 years or more. This
study evaluates three couples using Judith
Wallerstein’s
and Sandra Blakeslee’s Nine Developmental
Tasks of Marriage. It will examine its
effectiveness up to
date while being open for recent tasks not
mentioned. With the interdisciplinary
component of
theological studies coupled with guidance and
counselling concerning the family, the study
will also
connect the analysis of these marriages in the
idea of Marrying, Loving, and Dreaming, the
third one
being an important element in marriage as Pope
Francis said in his meeting with families in the
Philippines last January 2015. The analysis will
try to weave the effectiveness of the Nine Tasks
with
some ideas of the new exhortation ‘Amoris
Laetitia’ of the Holy Father but still following
the trajectory of
marrying, loving, and dreaming. This paper
juxtaposes a secular study on marriages with a
Catholic
point of view when the element of being Christ-
centered enters the scene. The theological
assertion is
that marriage, love, and dreaming would be
nothing without God
II. Abstract

This study focuses on people’s attitudes and perceptions of marriage and divorce in today’s
society based on their experience, or lack of experience. It will examine its effectiveness up to
date while being open for recent tasks not mentioned. With the interdisciplinary component of
theological studies coupled with guidance and counselling concerning the family, the study will
also connect the analysis of these marriages in the idea of Marrying, Loving, and Dreaming, the
third one being an important element in marriage as Pope Francis said in his meeting with
families in the Philippines last January 2015. The analysis will try to weave the effectiveness of
the Nine Tasks with some ideas of the new exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ of the Holy Father but
still following the trajectory of marrying, loving, and dreaming. This paper juxtaposes a secular
study on marriages with a Catholic point of view when the element of being Christ-centered
enters the scene. The theological assertion is that marriage, love, and dreaming would be nothing
without God.

III. Introduction

The idea of marriage passed painstakingly through the crucible of history. The element of time –
and this means all the other factors that underlie within such temporality – is not only a crucial
element of an idea of marriage, but also the contingency of every passing moment. For the
Christian who believes in marriage as a divine institution in the form of monogamy pattered on
agape that is eternal, the test of time in marriage is a series of trying moments. Not only does the
contingent air affect the marriage, but the spouses themselves are temporal beings only capable
of entering into a glimpse of what real life is. The test of love becomes more crucial in the
agency of persons who are facing death or are bound for the mortality they assumed, in which an
inner longing for forever fuels the drama of existence’s cruelty (Kahambing, 2015).

Theoretical Framework: The Developmental Tasks of Marriage

3.1 Separation from the family of origin This task is the initial real-life attempt at living one’s
life independently from the ties of one’s origin, the family. It is an act of breaking away, a
separation which looks forward to one’s standing on life – to live life as one’s own. This task, as
dictum dictates, defines the struggle of beginnings. It will brave emotional and psychological
hindrances in order for one to grow. It is a necessary step towards maturity. The passage to adult
life begins in this separation. After which, the couple will now begin to live as one and would
have to make decisions of their own together. The life that they vow to live together will now
start after one has truly broken the emotional and psychological dependency from their family of
origin.
3.2 Building togetherness, intimacy, and autonomy This task evokes the planning and the
solidified decisions the couple must envision on how they can work with the marriage for the rest
of their lives. The couple projects the kind of fidelity that they want, which can help them go on
in life together. Here, the concept of the self as an “I” in marriage – one’s self-interest, one’s
likes and dislikes as priority over the other, and so on – now ceases to be and evolves into the
kind of mentality which identifies in the form of “we”: ‘what do we want together’, ‘how can we
cope with everything that matters for us in consensus’, and so on. This task rests on the scale of
balance, that is, on weighing priorities and needs for the good as an act of togetherness.
3.3 Maintain privacy while becoming a parent In this task, the couple has to find equilibrium
between themselves as spouses and their relationship to their child(ren). It is not leaving the
child(ren) but just finding the privacy of their own so that they might not lose the special
relationship that they share with themselves. It is, in short, finding the balance between their
partner and their child. Although they both comprise a family, the relationship with each one
varies and must be maintained.

IV. Literature Review

Cohabitation means joint living of a man without the formal legality of marriage. One major
difference between this arrangement and marriage is that the latter takes place with the
assumption of permanency, while those who cohabit do not typically enter into the relationship
with assumption (Henslin, 1980). There is exclusive sexual involvement and cohabitation, but
commitment is only for as long the relationship is mutually satisfying. When either of the couple
tires of the arrangement, he or she is free to leave without having to go legal means or to face
court. According to Becker, the single most important factor underlying social transformation
related to lower fertility, divorce, and cohabitation has been the rise in the earning power of
women. An essential change in the gender division of labor has followed women’s increased
participation in the waged labor force.
V. Methodology

In measuring the effectiveness of Wallerstein’s and Blakeslee’s Nine Developmental Tasks of

Marriage, the nature of the study is not only applying a theoretical framework in real life but
evaluating such theory through praxis, or more particularly, attesting the theory through real-life
experiences. Hence, the method of the case study will directly concern the answer of the spouses
themselves through qualitative research. They will be given questionnaires which will measure
to some extent the thesis of the tasks. The research to be conducted will delve on the themes of
their marriage, their love, and their capacity to dream even within the state of marriage itself.
The interdisciplinary nature of the study arises from the fact that the nine tasks of marriages as
fitting for guidance counseling fits well with a Catholic component in Pope Francis’ theological
assertions in Amoris Laetitia and the significance of dreaming.

VI. Result and Discussion

The questionnaire are the results of the gathered data: Profile of the husband and wife as couple
Most of respondents are 30-34 years married which is equivalent to 38%. They got married in a
time in the Philippines (1980s) when marriage and love are so important and sacred. During this
time, religion is the utmost center of Filipino families and separation is sin. This supports Raso
(2011)—for most of the respondents were born in the 1960s and 1970s which made them
considered as Generation X’ers—for he stated that the statistics reveal that Generation Y'ers are
more likely to have shorter marriages and to get divorced than Generation X'ers.
There are only 2 couples who have been in their 45-49 years and 50 and above years married.
This is linked with the life expectancy of Filipinos, for according to the statistical report
published by the Philippine Commission on Women (2014), the current female life expectancy is
still at 73.14 years compared with men at 67.61 years. Meaning, few couples made it until 45
years of marriage and above. Most of the husbands got married at the ages of 21-25 years old
with 46%; while the ages 31-35 and 36-40 got the same frequency of 1. Meanwhile, most of the
wives got married at the ages of 21-25 which is equivalent to 50% and none got married at the
ages of 36-40. The reason why the respondents got married at those age is that it takes a lot of
time for the couple to be emotionally, psychologically, and mentally ready. Also, Filipino
couples tend to make sure that both of their families are in good terms first. In support, one study
proves that the closer a couple’s age is, the greater the chances of avoiding divorce (Garber,
2014). However, the results somehow contradict Wolfinger (2015), for he said that as a person
ages from teenage years to being an adult through late twenties/thirties, the odds of divorce
decline and as he/she moves to his/her late thirties and early forties, the divorce risk increases
again. Meaning, it is better to get married when a person is at his or her late 20s or 30s for the
divorce rate is lower

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