Renan Thesis
Renan Thesis
Renan Thesis
Chapter I
The family is the first and most important foundation of the development of a
person. The family is basically a unit in which the parents and their children live together.
It is where the children develop their overall well-being from their parents which is their
first teachers. Therefore, it will not only build the social and physical well-being of an
individual, but the psychological and mental well-being as well. Reviewed researches
claimed that there is a great importance inside the environment of a home to a students
kinds of experiences, and raised with different sets of parental status. Some have both their
parents, some only have one, and some grew up without both. These create different
impacts to the academic performance of a student. It has been a common issue in other
countries because divorce is becoming a trend to the couples, and breaking up in a marriage
is as easy as breathing. As a result, it creates a direct impact to their sons and daughters,
In the Philippines, divorce is still not accepted because of its culture and the
religion. Yet, this does not make the children safe from growing up with a broken family.
Annulment can be a done, and married couples still manage to separate without a legal
procedure, and, early or unwanted pregnancy has been a widespread in the teenagers that
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makes a child grow up with parents that are still irresponsible, or with a family that does
not teach or influence good morals. Poverty is also one factor. Some children are forced to
live with relatives because their parents cannot give them a better life. But still, Filipinos
are known to be loving and caring, especially when it comes to family. It is very important
Locally, these issues have been living with us all along. Some families get broken,
children are forced to live either one of their parents, and poverty cannot be escaped.
But, are all these issues connected to a students academic growth and
performance? Every student has a family background and a marital status of their parents.
This study was created to know the relationship between the parents marital status and the
According to Echica (2010), the family is an essential factor for a humans whole-
being. Nowadays, a family could be two things, either complete or broken. A broken family
is believed to be the cause of a childs mislead in life. Others consider it as the main reason
of the rebellious and unclear acts of children. School in the other hand, is another factor
which melds the sutdents in becoming successful, but how will this happen if the student
cannot focus because of the problems that they encounter in their homes. Many support the
issue that a broken family affects much of the students performance, attitude and self-
esteem. Broken families earn less and experience lower levels of educational achievements.
As a result, this instability is being passed to their children, making a chain reaction.
Obviously, a stable family income still cannot guarantee a students development, but
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living a poor environment affects their decisions, derailing their progress and making them
million women in the Philippines that are bringing up a child/children with no financial
support from their fathers. This is where the solo parents welfare act comes into place.
The Republic Act 8972 or the Solo Parents Welfare Act provides for benefits and
privileges to solo parents and their children. It aims to develop a comprehensive package
of social development and welfare services for solo parents and their children to be carried
out by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), as the lead agency,
various government agencies including NSO and other related NGOs. It is where the
government gives programs and services to the solo parents which includes livelihood,
Despite the help from the government, many studies have documented the
challenges faced by single parents and the disadvantages of their children relative to
children raised by two-parent households. A large majority of these studies reviewed that
children from single-parent homes score lower on tests of cognitive functioning and
standardized tests, receive lower GPAs, and complete fewer years of school when
Although, the home environment or family has been recognized as having a lot of
influence on the academic performance of students (Ajila, 2010), previous studies have
been studying on the area of socio-economic status of parents and other aspects of parental
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environment and backgrounds. Ichado (2011), stated that constant disagreement and
quarrel between parents could lead to poor academic performance of students in school.
In addition, Adejumo (2011), states that parents involvement and full support in
activities at home creates a powerful influence on the students academic performance. The
efforts put forth by parents has a bigger impact on their childrens educational achievement
than effort expended by their teachers and professors or the students themselves.
Moreover, Paul (2012), pointed out that parents do matter. Decades of research
showing that a major part of the academic advantage held by students from affluent
families comes from concerted cultivation of children as compared to the more laissez-
faire style of parenting common in working-class families. This also reveals something
else; that parents, of all backgrounds, dont need to buy expensive educational devices for
their children in order to give them an edge. What they need to do with their children is
This study was conducted to determine the impact of the parents marital status to
the students academic performance. Specifically, the researchers sought answers to the
following questions:
1.1 Married;
1.2 Annulled;
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1.4 Widowed?
2. What is the impact of the parents marital status to the students academic
2.1 Participation;
academic performance?
4. Does the influence of parents marital status to the students academic performance
significant?
This study is anchored in the theory about parental involvement which stated that
it was found out that there is a positive impact associated to a students academic
This theory proposes that development and education starts inside a unit called
family. A family consists of a mother and a father which influences their childrens
psychological, social and overall performance in school (Powell & Cassidy, 2010).
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These two theories server as the foundation of this study. The researchers seek
answers whether the marital status of the parents affect the students academic
performance. Furthermore, the researchers believe that the result of this study would be
very helpful in the understanding in the relationship between family, parental status and
Figure 1 shows the variables of the study. It only consists the main variable which
is the impact of the parents marital status to the students academic performance which
includes the following factors like, participation, attendance and final grade. Below the
main variable is the moderator variable which includes the profile of the parents marital
status which has the factors including married, annulled, separated, and widowed.
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Main Variable
Participation
Attendance
Final Grade
Moderator Variable
Married
Annulled
Separated
Widowed
Students. As the primary subjects of the study, this is significant to the students
because it can intensify their awareness concerning their performance in school especially
Parents. The results of the study will help the parents to be aware on what are the
impacts to their sons and daughters regarding their marital status and parental involvement.
Universities, Colleges and Schools. The results of this study will help these
institutions understand what their students are facing and experiencing whenever the
Future Researchers. The findings will be useful to the future researchers of the study
because this will broaden their knowledge and also help them in their future research.
marital status to students academic performance in all the universities in Davao City. Due
to logistics constraint on the researchers, only Holy Cross of Davao College will be
sampled.
The study will gather a random sampling inside the campus with 50 respondents.
This is because the researchers believe that the number of sample is enough for the data
Chapter II
METHOD
In this chapter, the discussions of the method of the study are presented
under the following headings: (1) Research Design (2) Research Subjects (3) Research
Research Design
The researchers utilized the descriptive design in this study. Descriptive design is
the most adequate and accurate method in the interpretation of the findings, where it
discussed and interpreted the conditions and relationship that exist or do not exist in the
study.
adequate and accurate interpretation of the findings. It describes and interprets what is, and
reveals conditions and relationship that exists or do not exist, practices that prevail or do
not prevail, beliefs or points of view or attitudes that are held or not held, procedures that
are continuing or otherwise, affect that are being felt or trends that are developing.
to collect enough data and information without changing the environment. The description
is used for frequencies, averages and other statistical calculations. This method is often the
Research Subjects
The researchers distributed the questionnaires to the students in Holy Cross College
of Davao who are the respondents of this study because they are the one who can indicate
Research Instrument
simple and easy to construct. Moreover, a questionnaire can be easily distributed and less
time is consumed during data gathering. Additionally can be kept confidential and the data
from closed ended items are easy to tabulate. The terms are comprehensive and in direct
manner to avoid confusion. The respondents were asked to answer the said questionnaire
by checking the box that would correspond to their most appropriate answer. The
The researchers underwent the following steps in order to accomplish the study as
follows:
1. Before the data was collected the researchers obtained approval from the Dean of
College of Maritime Transportation of the Holy Cross of Davao College. This study
performance.
2. The researchers sought professional help from the panel of validators to validate
3. The respondents were asked to participate in the study and were informed about the
4. The researchers then retrieved the questionnaires after the respondents answered
the questions and a tabulation of their answers was forwarded to the statistician.
5. Interpretation and analysis was followed as well as the writing of the last chapter
The following statistical tools, were used in the computation of the data.
Mean. This was used in determining the respondents average level of impact of
RENAN D. RODRIGUEZ
GENER A. BARAYUGA
JOMAR A. JESTO
KEVIN A. MANLOZA