Holy Cross of Davao College, INC.

Davao City
Masters of Arts in Education teaching Social Studies

REACTION PAPER FOR TRENDS AND ISSUES IN SOCIAL STUDIES SS1107

SUBMITTED BY:
KEZIAH Q. DENILA
For the report: BROKEN FAMILY

FAMILY PLANNING SHOULD BE STRICTLY IMPLEMENTED IN THE

PHILIPPINES

Family is the basic unit of group that forms a society. It is the blood
and bones that make up a nation. W ithout it, there can never be that
changing force that makes up the entirety of all things in our world.
Family can sometimes be really complicated, unconventional, and
distant. However, this unit in the society is where we actually got our
morals, values, and nurtured us to become the person we are right now.

Now, what could possibly be the reason why families break apart?
I can cite a few answers to it but the real question here is that, how can
we address the growing statistics of broken families in the Philippines?
W e Filipinos are taught and raised from a Christian culture. Yet, we seem
to be taking marriage for granted when we are supposed to acknowledge
its sacredness. Some men and women prefer to live together and bear a
child before wedlock and thus ending with a greater risk of falling apart
leaving the children broken from the circumstances they never a sked for.

Additionally, these children who are left behind after the family
breaks apart often suffer from other complexities in life. The statistics
from the Philippines shows the growing numbers of children involved in
crimes and illegal drugs. Now this isn’t new to this scenario, I believe
this is common to all broken families in the entire world.

To address this problem, I find it a big must for the government to

strictly implement family planning before couples live together or before
they decide to get married. Family plannin g should involve counseli ng to
provide the couples a clear view of the pros and cons of getting married
and having children. Also, teenagers and young adults should be given
equal amount of counselling since these group ages are most apt to
succumb into early marriage.

I find it sad to see that parents often fail in doing their

responsibilities to raise good and obedient children. Then men and
women find it easy to abandon th eir family to escape from emotional
dilemma caused by relationships without emotional securities too.
Broken families starts with small cracks on the inside relationships with
its members and if left unreconciled, all these cracks will turn the very
most foundations of the family to fall down.

In the Philippines, most people are raised as family oriented people

but as years passed, we have been adapting to western culture and ours
has been altered as new trends in culture arise. I think the most important
thing in to address in this issue is that families should be reinforced in
all aspects in its dynamics to be able to endure challenges in this fast -
changing world.