SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES IN FILIPINO FAMILY

Introduction:The family is a solid unit whose interests are primary to that of the individuals composing it. Within the neighborhood, it is the entire family, not its individual members, which decides on the resolution of important matters; thus it is the honor of the family which is at stake when an individual member of the unit commits a mistake and not of the person himself.

The superordination of the family over individual interests has a far-reaching significance. Emphasis on family loyalty and support prevails which in turn underlines the concept of family solidarity. It is the family which provides the average Filipino with a stable unit for socialization and a reservoir of emotional security and support. Introduction:

It is in the family that she acquires her first orientation to group life, learns and internalizes the values of Filipino culture and finds guidance throughout her life.Introduction:

The father is considered the head and the provider of the family while the mother takes responsibility of the domestic needs and in-charge of the emotional growth and values formation of the children. They both perform different tasks and being remarked separately by the children. Children see their mothers soft and calm, while they regard their fathers as strong and the most eminent figure in the family. Role of the Parents (Tradition)

Today, in most urban centers of the Philippines two-income families are quite common, with both parents having full-time jobs. The mother still takes care of the household chores but with the help of the helper and a nanny who takes care of the baby at home.Role of the Parents

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Parent-child Relationship Children in a traditional Filipino family are trained not to answer back when parents are reprimanding them. Filipino children today are learning to reason with their parents just like what they see on Western movies and television programs. Most Filipino parents still consider it disrespectful for their children to answer back or reason with them. As a result, it creates tension and conflicts in their relationships.

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Family Faith and Religion Traditionally, the religion of the Filipino parents becomes the religion of the children. No one is supposed to change faith as a respect to the parents.

American freedom of religion influenced the younger generation to choose what to believe and help the parents to be more open-minded when it comes to their children's choice of faith

Traditional Filipino Family1. Strong respect for elders. Children are taught from birth how to say po and opo to teach them as early as possible how to properly respect their elders. These words are used to show respect to people of older level. 2. Keep close connection with other relatives.

According to Paz Policarpio Mendez and F. Landa Jocano (1974), the traditional Filipino family were: acknowledges the importance of both consanguineal (blood) and affinal (marriage) ties. ritual kinship in terms of godparents is recognized as being special because it is embedded in the Filipino community Filipino Family

Traditional Filipino Family Consanguineal or biological ties remain as the most important relations Some rural Filipinos, when choosing friends and possible spouses, carefully examined genealogies to assess virtues and shortcomings because they believed that a person's hereditary character shows.

Traditional Filipino FamilyBelen Medina found that: Blood bonds are so important, that a person can be judged on the basis of who her or his relatives are. It follows that parents and children share an exceptionally strong and intimate bond. They give each other much mutual affection and respect. Children are taught by their parents to be gentle and deferential to elders, and this is carried on after they get married.

Traditional Filipino FamilyGelia Castillo and Juanito Pua (1963, p. 116) classify the Filipino family as residentially nuclear but functionally extended." This means that the household tends to be nuclear in form, but the family is extended in so far as relationships among members of the wider kin group are concerned.

Modern Filipino Family Social relationships become more impersonal and businesslike less religiously oriented