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

Print

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

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