THESIS

Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
The family is the child’s first place of contact with the world. The child as a result, acquires initial education and socialization from parents and other significant persons in the family. A family is a nucleus of the civilization because it is the basic building block of human society, it is the oldest and basic of all social institution, and it is the primary social group, and the first agency of socialization. (Agapay 187) Family structure also affects absences and behaviour problems in school. Students who experience family disruption or live in single-parent families are more apt to be placed in a special education class. (Panopio, MacDonald, & Raymundo 189)
It is no surprise that family – most particularly parents – are the most important people in an adolescent’s life. Their love, affection, support, and approval are a fundamental need of all adolescents. Hence, family has become the primary source of motivation and influence in the students.
So here’s the much-expected question: what if the family, which a young person has always had, has gone to ruins? The adolescent would feel unhappy, depressed even. Their emotional state would be similar to that of passengers in a sinking ship. They would need to hang on to a life-saver. In every case, the aggrieved partner would become the sole source of comfort and support for the hapless kids. Their world, as they know it, would’ve fallen apart.
Within Philippines, the education of children is of upmost importance to the citizens of the society. Without proper education, children will encounter difficulties such as illiteracy, unemployment, and shame. And although the unemployment and underemployment rate have considerably went down during the past year, it still remains a problem that more than 6 percent of Filipinos remain jobless.
The purpose of the study is to explore information about the effects of family problems as one of the factors in the

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