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Family is the smallest institution in human society. Family’s role is

crucial in human development because it serves as the frst level o support

system or its members. Because o the importance o the amily, the

Philippines’ 1986 constitution had a separate article about it.

side rom !ivin! political importance, the Philippines are also "no#n

or havin! a culture o close amily ties. $very Filipino amily loo"s into the

#elare o their members, especially in education. %raditionally in the

Philippines, !raduation photos and diplomas o their children rom

elementary up to colle!e level are posted in every house, believin! that

education is the !reatest !it that a parent could !ive.

s time !oes by, chan!es and challen!es are bein! aced by every

Filipino amily. ccordin! to the &ational 'tatistics uthority o the

Philippines, one in ten youn! Filipino #omen a!e 1()19 has be!un

childbearin!, 8 percent are already mothers and another * percent are

pre!nant #ith their frst child. mon! youn! adult #omen a!e *+ to *, -

percent are already mothers and percent are pre!nant #ith their frst child.

t is more common amon! youn! adult #omen a!e 1( to * #ith less

education than amon! those #ith hi!her education / percent or #omen

#ith elementary education versus *1 percent or #omen #ith colle!e

education0. $arly childbearin! is also more common in ara!a /-8 percent0

and a!ayan 2alley /-3 percent0 than other re!ions. %he proportion o youn!

adult #omen #ho have be!un childbearin! is hi!her amon! those classifed

as belon!in! to poor households than those in #ealthier households /-3

percent or youn! #omen in the lo#est #ealth 4uintile versus 1- percent or

#omen in the hi!hest #ealth 4uintile0 %his sho#s that amilies #ith youn!

uneducated parents are on the rise in the country.

nother current problem is the poverty amon! Filipino amilies. bout

11. million amilies remained poor in the frst 4uarter o the year, #hile

some 3.9 million Filipinos rated themselves ood)poor, accordin! to the 'ocial

5eather 'tations /'5'0 sel)rated poverty survey. %he sel)rated poverty

threshold is defned as the monthly bud!et that households need in order not

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to consider themselves poor, #hile sel)rated ood poverty is the monthly

ood bud!et needed to consider themselves not poor.7 cross areas, sel)

rated poverty decreased by 1* points in etro anila /-1 percent rom -

percent0 and a point in the rest o u:on / percent rom ( percent0, but

#ent up sli!htly in the 2isayas /3+ percent rom 6( percent0 and indanao

/6* percent rom 6+ percent0. ean#hile, accordin! to the Philippine

'tatistics uthority, %he subsistence incidence amon! Filipino amilies, or the

proportion o Filipino amilies in e;treme poverty, #as estimated at 9.*

percent durin! the frst semester o *+1(. n the same period in *+1*, the

proportion o amilies in e;treme poverty #as recorded at 1+.+ percent. n

the frst semester o *+1(, on the avera!e, incomes o poor amilies #ere

short by *9.+ percent o the poverty threshold. %his means that on the

avera!e, an additional monthly income o Php *,69 is needed by a poor

amily #ith fve members in order to move out o poverty in the frst

semester o *+1(.

side rom that, the number o sin!le)headed households is no# 1-.9

million accordin! to the %rade