THE EFFECTS OF BROKEN FAMILY TO STUDENT ACADEMIC

PERFORMANCE

A Concept Paper

In Partial fulfillment of the

Requirements for the Subject

SS 201: Introduction to Social Sciences

Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) – Major in Social Sciences

May 2019

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 A. INTRODUCTION

Background

Family is a single word, with many different meanings, but the traditional family
consists of a father, mother and children. According to Mayntz (2006), in the most basic
definition, family is a group of people who share a legal bond or a blood bond.

Family is really an important word. It means to feel secure, to have someone who
you can count on, whom you can share your problems with.

In an ideal family, all the members are happy. They understand, love and help each
other. Parents work to earn money for the family. They are responsible for their children.
Children are should be well educated.

In a family, the parents has a big role in their child’s education, they are their first
teachers and they have a key role in shaping up their character. According to Muller (2009),
family-school and community partnerships are re-defining the boundaries and functions of
education. They enlarge parental and community capacity; they create conditions in which
children learn more effectively. A balance of education at home and school molds a
student’s actual learning. Their role is not limited to home but involvement in school
activities too.

The home, the school and the environment has great importance in the development
of the student’s academic performance in order to become successful in achieving
individual goals in life. Also, experts believe the parental involvement is extremely
important for a child to do well in school.

Furthermore, the role of parents in Bulataos (1978) as cited by Bonbon (1998), state
that one of the aspirations of parents for their children is to attain the high level of
education. To attain that, the parents should give the child affection, companionship, and
understanding and extend to him the benefits of moral guidance, self-discipline and
instruction.

According to Mercado (1991) as cited by Bonbon (1998) both parents play an active
role in socialization. The mother assumes the bulk of child care responsibility because it is

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she who spends more time at home and has a more intimate relationship with the child. She
takes care of the husband, children, home and household chores.

According to Pearl (1981) as cited by Bonbon (1998) also found that a close
relationship between a child and his father helped the child accept standard more easily
and incorporate them in his values, such children had less difficulty in obeying laws, roles
and standard given by other authority figures throughout life. In other words, those children
were much likely to become delinquent.

Together the mother and father help hand in hand to keep the family,
raise the children, teach them values and the culture of which they belong and
provide the basic needs like food, shelter and clothing.

Parental encouragement had played a crucial role in successful students but if the
family is broken it also affects the child’s performance in their school.

Broken family define as a result of separation of marriage either by death or

annulment. According to Bangera (2018), broken families are those families where parents
doesn't live together or separated. Children live with one of the parent, or many a time there
are looked after by one of the grand parent. In such family, children have bad childhood as
they witness the separation, or lack of parents love together.

A broken family is believed to be a reason of a child’s mislead in life, some people

give it as the main cause of the rebellious and unclear acts of children. According to Desk
(2015), a broken family can negatively affect all domains of your child’s development. The
effects of a broken family on a child’s development depend on numerous factors, including
the age of the child at the time of parents’ separation, and on the personality and family
relationships. Although infants and young children may experience few negative
developmental effects, older children and teenagers may experience some problems in their
social, emotional and educational functioning.

School is another factor that help the child or the student becoming successful, but
how will make them successful if they can’t focus, they can’t do schooling like others
because their minds are occupied their problems encounter in their family. According to
Desk (2015), the effects of broken family to education slowed academic development is

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another common way that separation of the parents affects children. The emotional stress
of a divorce alone can be enough to stunt your child’s academic progress, but the lifestyle
changes and instability of a broken family can contribute to poor educational outcomes.
This poor academic progress can stem from a number of factors, including instability in
the home environment, inadequate financial resources and inconsistent routines.

Hence, there are frustrated and psychologically disturbed, when they are in
classroom as a result they cannot do well in the school activities.

As part of the requirement for the course Introduction to Social Science and to
provide valuable information in the effects of broken family to student academic
performance, the researcher found out that it is essential to the present study.

Statement of the Problem

This study entitled, “The Effects of Broken Family to Student Academic

Performance” aim to answer the following questions:

1. What is the profile of respondents in terms of:

a. Age
b. Sex
c. General Weighted Average (GPA)
d. School
2. Does lack of parental care and love affect student academic achievement to
school?
3. Does lack of parental security and discipline affect student performance in
school?

Scope and Delimitation

The study covers Puerto Princesa City Area as a case study on the effect of broken
family on student academic performance.

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 The study is limited to some selected Secondary School in Puerto Princesa City,
examples of selected secondary schools are:

1. Palawan National School

2. Palawan State University- Laboratory High School.
3. San Miguel National High School.
4. San Jose National High School.
5. Sicsican National HIgh School.

The study will be conducted in three and in a half months. In this duration the
researcher will gather information to the respondents by random sampling procedure and
will interpret the data collected. The researcher will finish the study before the deadline.

In this study, researcher will assess the following: a. profile of the respondents, b.
the effects of lack of parental care and love to student academic performance, c. the effects
of lack of parental security and discipline affect student performance in school.

Significance of Study

For future researchers, this study will be substantial because of the information they
will accumulate about the subject. It will give awareness about the effects of broken family
to the performance of the students in school;

For the students, this study will help the students who have a broken family to be
aware in their situation and how it affects their academic performance;

For parents, this study will benefits also the parents to make them realize that
having a complete family is the most important foundation in our society and having a
broken family can affect their child’s behavior and academic performance in school;

For the guidance counselor, this study will be an effective instrument in their hands
in terms of guidance and counseling to parents and students;

For the teachers, this will provide knowledge about broken family as a factor to the
student academic performance and they may help their students despite the problem in the

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study and to see them as unique and teach them accordingly. This study will help the
teacher to know how to approach or treat their students well who suffer on this particular
matter and help them in those situation.

Conceptual Framework

Based from the readings, the researcher are able to conceptualize that the broken
family, the absence of mother and father may affect the student academic performance. It
is very important that the parents fulfil their responsibilities to their children.

Research Paradigm

Independent Variable Dependent Variable

Profile of Respondents:
a. Age
b Sex
Student Academic
c. General Weighted
Average (GPA) Performance

d. School

The effects of lack of parental

care, love, security and
discipline.

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Figure1. Research Paradigm of the study showed that the independent variable was
the profile of responds, the effects of lack of parental care, love, security and discipline and
the dependent variable was the student academic performance.

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 B. METHODOLOGY

Design

The method of research used was quantitative research with descriptive design.
According to Walpole (1997) as stated by Delin, et. al., (2014), descriptive method should
be comprised of the methods concerned with the collection and description of data in order
to yield meaningful information. Descriptive method utilized questionnaire and got the
information about the effects of broken family to student academic performance.

Data Source/Sources

PRIMARY SOURCE The researcher will use questionnaire as

primary source of the study, it will
distribute to respondents. It contain the
respondent’s profile, the effects of lack of
parental care, love, security, and discipline
to student academic performance.
SECONDARY SOURCE The researcher used some books,
newspaper and weblogs related to the
study.

Books provide insight on how much work

has already been done on the same topic
like thesis and other research books.

Newspaper include some issues and

trending that happened nowadays.

Weblogs are diaries written by different

people and have different opinion about
specific topic.

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Data-Gathering Instruments

The main source used in gathering the information was the questionnaire that the
researcher made and is where the researcher gathered the information about the respondents.

The questionnaire was composed of three parts: Part 1 refers to the profile of the
respondents in terms of age, sex, general weighted average (GPA and school; Part 2 refers
to the effects of lack of parental care and love to student academic performance; and Part
3 refers to the effects of lack of parental security and discipline to students performance in
school.

Measures of Analysis

The researchers prepared the questionnaire for the respondents and gathered
information regarding the effects of broken family to student academic performance.

The researchers distributed the questionnaire. Then, the questionnaires were

collected by the researchers afterwards. The answers of the selected respondents were
tallied by the researchers. In order to secure the validity and reliability of the questionnaire
the researcher analyzed and interpreted the data gathered. The researcher will use the
quantitative research with descriptive design.

The researcher will use the casual-comparative research. This type of research
attempts to establish the cause-effect relationship among variables of the study. The
attempt is to establish that values of the independent variable have a significant effect on
the dependent variable.

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 C. APPENDICES

Bibliography

Bangera.V. (2019). What is a broken family? Quora. Retrieved May 3, 2019 from
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-broken-family

Bonbon. E., et al. (1998). Problems Encountered by Students Living with their Relatives
and their Relationship to Academic Performance. Puerto Princesa City: Palawan
State University

Desk.M. (2015). The effect of a broken family. The News. Retrieved from
https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/you/76974-the-effect-of-a-broken-family

Mayntz.M . (2006). Definition of Family. LoveToKnow, Corp; Lifestyle. Retrieved May

2, 2019 from https://family.lovetoknow.com/definition-family

Olokuntoye.A. (2019). THE EFFECT OF BROKEN HOME ON THE ACADEMIC

PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS. Retrieved May 1, 2019 from
https://www.academia.edu/9828206/THE_EFFECT_OF_BROKEN_HOME_ON
_THE ACADEMIC_PERFORMANCE_OF_STUDENTS

Trinity Catholic College. (2019). A Parent’s Role in Their Child’s Education. Retrieved
May 2, 2019 from http://www.trinity.catholic.edu.au/a-parents-role-in-their-childs-
education/

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Timetable

Stage Activity Estimated Start Date End Date

duration
Research Finalize research 2 days
design and problem/questions
planning
Develop Research 2 days
Design

Prepare research 3 days

proposal

Literature Search, capture and 1 week

review synthesize relevant
literature
Prepare draft literature 1 week
review
Data Finalize sampling plan 2 days
collection Develop data 3 days
collection instrument
Pre-test/ pilot data 3 days
collection instrument
Carry out data 2 weeks
collection
Write up data 2 weeks
collection
Data Prepare data for 1 week
Analysis analysis
Analyze data 2 weeks

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 Draw conclusion/ 1 week
recommendation
Writing Final draft report 3 days
up Review draft with 3 days
supervisor
Final editing 5 days
Printing, binding and 3 days
final submission

Budget and Fund Source

The budget identify as the anticipated cost for everything (salaries, materials,
instrumentation, travel costs, etc.) that will be required in order to accomplish the research
project.

NEED EXPECTED BUDGET FUND SOURCE

Transportation ₱30.00 per day Researcher
₱3,150.00 for 105 days
Foods ₱50.00 per day Researcher
₱5,250.00 for 105 days
Materials and Supplies
 Pens
 3 ream of long ₱3,000.00 Researcher
bond paper
(8.5x13)
Printing and binding ₱1,500.00 Researcher
TOTAL ₱12,900.00

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