I.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The current study seeks to understand the lived experiences of students having a
broken family by answering the following:

1. What are the lived experiences of the students having a broken family?

2. What are the themes that emerged from the testimonies shared by student
who are having a broken family?

3. What are the challenges in broken family to students at home?

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1. What are the lived experiences of the students having a broken family?

1. Difficulties in school

2. Stress

3. Early engagement in sexual activities

4. Insecure and afraid of the future

5. Depression

6. Fear of being abandoned

7. Trauma

8. Afraid to have a family in the future

9. Scream out loud with fear because of the parent’s trauma

10. Jealous of others who have complete families

 2. What are the themes that emerged from the testimonies shared by student
who are having a broken family?
1. Struggling with what they are going through without their
parents always by their side
2. Insecure to have a complete family

3. Problem of separating siblings

4. Child who has difficulty choosing whose companion when the

parents seperate
5. Lack of parently guidance

6. Early relationships with others because they feel more love than
parents
7. Having a depression of having a broken family

8. Financial problems

9. Having a difficulty to focus on school works

10. Having a bad habits

3. What are the challenges in broken family to students at home?

1. No one cares much about you/you siblings
2. Need to be independent because the family is not complete
3. Having difficulty with household chores
4. Need to take care of food for the family
5. Time management is needed so as not to struggle with
household chores
6. The laundry needs to be done immediately because no one else
will take care of it
7. Can't clean properly because there is school
8. Sometimes you won't eat breakfast when there's school because
no one will cook or take care of it
9. Never experienced having family pictures

10. No longer eating properly on time

 CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Introduction

This chapter tackles the methods used in order to come up with this kind of
study. This chapter includes a detailed description of the research methodology
that was utilized in the study. This chapter is organized in several methods used:
research design, research locale, population and sampling, participant of the study,
data gathering procedure, instrumentation validation of research instrument, ethical
consideration and treatment of qualitative data that provide to a framework within
which to describe the research procedures. It will tackles on how the researches
will gather data and information that will be a great help to this study.

Research Design

The researcher use qualitative research method in this study about students
which into broken family. They will collect qualitative data through interviews.

Research Locale
The study was conducted at the Santa Cruz Institute since the chosen
respondents are students of Santa Cruz Institute.
Research Instrument

The researcher made use of the test questionnaire and recorded interview to
answer the problems of the study.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researcher used test questionnaire and recorded interview as a data

gathering technique. The test questionnaire was used to determine the difficulties

of the students in solving the problem and the interview was used to analyze the

data coming from the test questionnaire.

Statistical Treatment

Percentage was used to identify the effects of broken family to students.

The formula in computing the percentage is:

P = F/N x 100

Where

P = percentage

F = frequency of respondents

N = total number of students