Vicente Madrigal National High School (SY 2021 – 2022)

The Effects of Having a Broken Family on the Academic

Performance and Social Status of Selected Adolescent
Students in Binangonan, Rizal

Presented To:

Ever Austria

Presented By:
Dela Salde, Analy, Clave
Patolombon, Marialyn, Echavez
Picones, Angelica, Vargas
Regahal, Marvylene, Francisco
Relado, Valerie, Zacarias
Rivera, Nickaela Louis, Reyes
Villarma, Jennifer, Gorospe
Jamin, Jack, Austero
Sales, Harry, Baptista
Segurate, Vincent, Abdula
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Family is supposed to be the first place where a person begins to prepare for
independence. Everyone's desire is to have a healthy and happy family. However, many
couples were unable to have it. The number of marriage failure is an alarmingly
increasing especially in some places. The high rate of celebrity marriages/rich
couples/royal blood marital is an evidence that many marriages weren't really doing
quite well. Couples separated when their marriages fail. They go separate ways. A few
will remarry, while some will remain single. Most of situations like these, children are
harmed excessively, and many of these incidents cause trauma to them. They may
believe that their parents are unconcerned about their thoughts.

Family is well-established to be the simplest and smallest social group or system,

and it springs as the foundation for the children’s values, morals, and principles. As
crucial as it is, there are numerous related studies conducted by other researchers
regarding the subject of a broken home’s impact on children. Aktar, S. (2013)
highlighted in their study that the stability of family creates a building block for children
to progress throughout life. When parents separate, the children are left with no stability
causing them to lose basic concepts of childhood that may carry with them throughout
life. According to Mattix, E.R. (1958), a broken home is defined as a home impaired in
its normal biological set-up as a result of death of either one or both parents, divorce,
separation or desertion of either one or both parents. A broken home demonstrates
several impacts on the members of the home, especially the children. Phukan, et al.
(2021)’s case study reveals that broken homes have a serious negative effect on the
student’s regular attendance to schools and concentration in classes as well.

Broken families earn less and experience lower levels of educational

achievement. Worse, they pass the prospect of meager incomes and family instability
on to their children, ensuring a continuing, if not expanding, cycle of economic distress.
Furthermore, many children are unable to focus in their studies because problems in
their families and problems in school are mixed in their minds, causing them to be
unable to focus, and they experience a lack of emotions toward other people, making
them afraid to associate with other people.

The audience will be student readers from different grade levels, teachers/critics,
and panels but the most relevant audience of the study are the researchers of the study.
The effects of broken families on teens are worldly issues that most of the liberated
country teens are open to tackling. Broken homes are very relevant on the verge of
synchronizing events in the logical state of mind within individuals to the extent of virtual
laws. The downfall part of the executing party is the importance and relevance of this
study to teens out there. They may read the research paper themselves for assessment
and evaluation with prior knowledge on how to face or prevent such negative effects on
the case studied.

The purpose of this study is to see how broken families affect adolescent
students' academic performance and social status in Binangonan, Rizal. It's necessary
to know that not all children who have grown up with a broken family have issues. It also
does not indicate that children who have a complete family have perfect lives. The goal
is to allow potential parents to prioritize their child's interests and feelings before ending
the marriage, because they are not the only ones who will suffer.

References:
Aktar, S. (2013). Effects of Family Breakup on Children: A Study in Khulna City.
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology. Volume 10 Number 1, January 2013.
https://www.bangladeshsociology.org/BEJS%2010.1%20Shirina%20Aktar.pdf

Mattix, E.R. (1958). A study of the relationships between the broken home and the
school. Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 5994
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/5994

Phukan, et al. (2021). A Study on the Causes of Broken Family and Its Effects on the
Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Guwahati City. Vol. 64 No. 2
(2021). Solid State Technology.
http://solidstatetechnology.us/index.php/JSST/article/view/10776
Statement of the Problem

Adolescents from the ages of ten to nineteen who come from broken families are
most affected in school. They are unable to focus on studying and working on activities.
The type of household in which adolescents grow up has an impact on their
development since it determines the type of interaction, they have with various family
members. Adolescents have a sense of security and stability at home.

 What is the effect of a broken family on Binangonan, Rizal students?

 What effect will this have on their academic achievement and social position in
Binangonan, Rizal, where the student's family is broken?
 How well do their attitudes towards broken families reflect their academic
performance and social status as Binangonan, Rizal students?

Scope and Limitations of the Study

The study focused on the effects of having a broken family on the academic
performance and social status of selected adolescent students in Binangonan, Rizal.
The research was carried out this year. Adolescent students from Binangonan, Rizal,
were chosen as subjects.

The research focused on the effects of having a broken family on the academic
performance and social status of selected adolescent students.

Significance of the Study

1. Students- The purpose of this study is to see how being a member of a broken
family affects students, as well as to look at the academic performance and
social status of chosen adolescent students from broken homes in Binangonan,
Rizal.
2. Society- This research can also help society gain a better understanding of
broken families in order to avoid an ever-increasing cycle of poverty.
3. Parents- This may help the parents understand the adolescent's point of view or
how the adolescent's academic achievement and social standing are affected by
their broken family.
 CHAPTER II

Review Related Literature

A study by Margot Galang (2015) on Implication of Broken Marriages to Filipino

Children, the common reasons why Filipino couples separate include financial
problems, lack of communication, infidelity, and domestic violence. Clinical and
therapists note that children caught in the middle of parent’s animosity during separation
have attention and concentration problems, academic problems, anger issues, sleep
disorders, and other psychological, behavioral and spiritual problems.

A case study conducted by Jeofrey Abalos (2017) focuses on divorce and

separation in the Philippines, its trends, and correlations. Our country, the Philippines, is
known to be the only country in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce is
illegal. Despite the lack of divorce law in the country and the high costs of obtaining an
annulment, recent data shows that a growing number of Filipinos dissolve their marital
unions, either legally or informally.

A study by Ilori Oladapo Mayowa (2021) on Impacts of Broken Homes to

Education of Children, some of the remote causes of having broken homes are:
Infidelity, Financial Incapability, Incompatibility, Misconduct, Health Challenges, Divorce,
Death, Unexpected Pregnancy. Researches correlated with the structure of the family
and delinquent activities in the children. It was observed that children from a Broken
Home are likely to be delinquent than children from a family where the husband and the
wife are living together. The level of affection and emotionally bond in the Broken
Homes is always less than that of the full family and this will harm the attitude and
behavior of such a child. Another side effect of Broken Homes in our society today.
There is no doubt that the education of a child will suffer and experience retardation in a
Broken Homes.

The Senate of the Philippines released statistics that in the year 2021, there are
currently an estimated 14 to 15 million solo parents in the Philippines, 95% of whom are
women, according to a World Health Organization-funded study by the Department of
Health and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health. Although the
definition of broken homes goes beyond this, it is evident how widespread broken
families are across the country. With family being the sole most important foundation of
children, it is where morals and principles are gained, broken homes have a direct
impact on the children’s psychological traits. Growing up in a broken home does an
immense impact on a child, especially with their education because a children’s first
education is their family. The family is expected to lay a good foundation education,
both formal and informal for the child.

According to a research conducted by Lee Eun Gyoung and Park Sung Yun
(2004), It is also responsible for raising and protecting children, and plays a crucial role
in shaping their personalities physically, mentally and socially (Bloom, 1964). South
Korea has shown great economic growth due to urbanization and industrialization, but
broken families are increasing due to structural change of families as well as change of
values and norms (Lee, 2003;Kim and An, 2005).

References:
Margot Galang (2015). Coping from the pains of a broken family:
https://www.worldvision.org.ph/stories/coping-from-the-pains-of-a-broken-family-2/

Jeofrey Abalos (2017). Divorce and separation in the Philippines: Trends and
correlates:
https://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol36/50/

Ilori Oladapo Mayowa (2021). Impact of Broken Homes on Education of Children: A

Sociological Perspective:
file:///C:/Users/My%20Lenovo%20PC/Downloads/8248-Article%20Text-19649-1-10-
20210823.pdf

Senate of the Philippines (2021). Expanded Solo Parents Bill passed in the Senate as
Bong Go highlights commitment to promote welfare of solo parents, children, and other
vulnerable groups:
https://legacy.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2021/1215_go2.asp#:~:text=There%20are
%20currently%20an%20estimated,Philippines%2DNational%20Institutes%20of
%20Health

Lee Eun Gyoung and Park Sung Yun (2004). Emotional & Behavioral Problems in
Children from Broken Families:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
264028497_Emotional_Behavioral_Problems_in_Children_from_Broken_Families#:~:te
xt=The%20main%20results%20were%20as,habits%20and%20attention-seeking
%20behaviors