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Impact of Broken Homes on Behaviour Among High School Students: Basis for a Family System Counselling Module

Francis Artchess B. Babao

 

Abstract:

Students from broken homes felt the burden of their parents as they go to school or as they mingle with their peers (Kiura , 1999). To intervene the negative impact of broken homes, children should be made aware that it would be helpful to work with a group of people with similar experiences and/or with a professional counselor. Hence, this descriptive research delved into the impact of broken homes on the students’ behavior to produce a Module on Family System Counseling for community outreach activity. Purposive sampling was adopted in selecting the respondents. Simple percentage, frequency and weighted mean were utilized to analyze the collected data. Impact of broken home on the personal behaviours were studied particularly on relationship with parents, inter-personal skill in relating with other people, tendency to depart from home, lose of personal religious faith, hang-up with peer groups , engage with boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, indulge with pre-marital sex, get involved with vices, do criminal acts, and suicidal attempts. The findings revealed that broken home had a negative impact on the respondents’ behavior such as their tendency to incur failing grades, manifest attendance problems such as absences and tardiness. This paper concludes that broken homes had cause a negative impact on the behavior of the respondents. Thus, it is important that teachers, guidance counselors, custodial parents and guardians of children of broken homes should collaborate to avert the negative impact. The school must enhance their guidance program and services by giving attention to students-at-risk, conduct interventionactivities to remedy or prevent the serious impact of broken home. Through community extension service, the Guidance Counselor may render family counseling therapy to concerned families.