Long-distance parenting and child-parent relationships of domestic workers in the Philippines
Added Title
Long-distance parenting of domestic workers
Date of Publication
2019
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Psychology
Thesis Adviser
Maria Guadalupe C. Salanga
Defense Panel Member
Darren E. Dumaop
Abstract/Summary
Long-distance parenting has been used by domestic workers in the Philippines as a way to balance the need to live in a far distant location for their occupation and to parent their children left behind. Such compromise tales a psychological toll both on the children and the domestic workers themselves. Along with this is the lack of attention given by policy makers and institutions to domestic workers in the Philippines, which have caused them being denied of platforms to exercise their rights as employees, enabled abuse and exploitation from their employers, and being deprived from having better resources and benefits for both them and their families. This research aimed to steer the attention towards the experiences and challenges of long-distance parenting that domestic workers in the Philippines experience. At the same time, the paper, through the parenting competency model, intends to determine the limitations of long-distance parenting, in accordance to effective parenting functioning ad its need to meet child development. Participants were domestic workers in the Philippines who are mothers to children left behind in their hometowns and provinces. The qualitative approach study made use of the parenting competency model and interpretivist paradigm as the guiding framework, and thematic analysis for the data analysis.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU17424
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
81 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Parenting--Philippines; Parent and child--Philippines
Recommended Citation
Ferrer, P. I., Sarte, R. A., Sobria, N., & Tan, G. B. (2019). Long-distance parenting and child-parent relationships of domestic workers in the Philippines. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9497