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Universidad de Sta. Isabel
Naga City

THE PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS EXPERIENCED BY THE SELECTED STUDENTS OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOL NAGA CITY HAVING OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKER PARENTS

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement
For the Degree Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Submitted by:

Nebreja, Myra C.
Orcine, Marian H.
Rodriguez, Ramilla Kristel B.
Vergara, Hazel C.

Submitted to:

Maria Teresa Javier, Ph.D.

February 4, 2014

Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM

Introduction

Filipinos are typically family-oriented. Parents and children uphold the family tradition of strong family ties and adhere to the teachings of the Church regarding to families.
The greatest impact of migration is experienced in the family. Arguelles, et al. (2004) said that the family is the heart and the center of the Filipinos. It is where faith and the gospel value are learned and lived. It is where love, justice, peace, fraternity, and equality are experienced, nourished and cultivated. Migration breaks this center, this experience, and this harmony, It separate, splits, detaches, and segregates the family. It creates a dysfunction in the normal course of the family life, generates a variety of new problems and challenges to the family, church and the society.
The 1987 Philippine constitution, article XV section 1, provides that “the state recognizes the Filipino family as the foundation of the nation’’. It is then imperative that the state should strengthen its solidarity and actively promote its total development.
In the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II in 2000, the Holy Father stressed the basic responsibility of parents to train their children in the essential value of human life. They must grow up with a correct attitude of freedom with regard to material good, by adopting a simpler and austere lifestyle and being fully convinced that man is more precious for what he is done for what he has.
In the light, the family is called to a love that

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